And there were the girls like Joan, newly released from the exotic atmosphere of those fashionable finishing schools which no sane country should permit.

But even these wild and unbroken colts and fillies, she believed, had excuses.

They were the natural results of a complete lack of parental discipline and school training.

They ran amuck, advertised by the press and applauded by the hawks who pounced upon their wallets.
They were more to be pitied than condemned, far more foolish and ridiculous than decadent.

They were not unique, either, or peculiar to their own country.