A leader of New York society, she had run charitable institutions and new movements with the same precision and efficiency that she had used in her houses.

Every hour of her day had been filled.
Not one moment had been wasted or frittered away.

Her dinner parties had been famous, and she had had a spoke in the wheels of politics.

Her witty sayings had been passed from mouth to mouth.

Her little flirtations with prominent men and the ambitious tyros who had been drawn to her salon had given rise to much gossip.