Appearances are everything, so far as human opinion goes, and the man who will walk down Piccadilly arm in arm with the most notorious scamp in London, provided he is a well-dressed one, will slink up a back street to say a couple of words to a seedy-looking gentleman.

就世人的评判而言，外表就是一切：有人肯挽着伦敦最臭名昭著的无赖走过皮卡迪利街，只要那人衣冠楚楚；可若要同一位衣衫寒酸的绅士说几句话，他却会偷偷绕进后街。