"We city dwellers have our duties, also." "Is that a fact?
I want to know!" "Certainly it is a fact," tartly.

"I have my duties and many of them." "Um! So?
Well, I s'pose you do feel you must dress just so, and live just so, and do just such and such things.

If you call those duties, why--" "I do.

What else are they, pray ?" Mrs.Dunn was finding it difficult to keep her temper.

To be catechised in this contemptuously lofty manner by one to whom she considered herself so immensely superior, was too much.