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Quote #10
Till they came to the door of the great man's room, Toodles preserved a scandalized and solemn silence, as though he were offended with the Assistant Commissioner for exposing such an unsavory and disturbing fact. It revolutionized his idea of the Explorers' Clubs extreme selectness, of its social purity. (10.24)
After hearing that a member of the posh Explorers Club has been involved in criminal affairs, the secretary named Toodles is totally scandalized. He even gets mad at the Assistant Commissioner for telling him this information. Toodles is a young man who totally buys into the British status quo, which clearly says that upper-class people are above the filthy affairs of criminals.