text: 's; a person who _calls himself_ a foreign count; a claimant of a dormant peerage; a baronet of some sort not above the professional; sundry propriety-faced people in yellow waistcoats who say little and whose social position you cannot well make out; half-a-dozen ladies of an uncertain age dressed in grand style with turbans of imposing _tournure_; and a young diffident equivocal-looking gent who sits at the bottom of the table and whom you instinctively make out to be a family doctor tutor or nephew with expectations