"There is plenty of bullying everywhere." "A great deal of that kind of thing goes on in New York," said Tristram.
"Girls are bullied or coaxed or bribed, or all three together, into marrying nasty fellows.

There is no end of that always going on in the Fifth Avenue, and other bad things besides.

The Mysteries of the Fifth Avenue! Some one ought to show them up." "I don't believe it!" said Newman, very gravely.

"I don't believe that, in America, girls are ever subjected to compulsion.

I don't believe there have been a dozen cases of it since the country began." "Listen to the voice of the spread eagle!" cried Tristram.
"The spread eagle ought to use his wings," said Mrs.Tristram.