Her tone implied that things would not go very smoothly for the interloper.

"All this comes from assimilating English ideas," she added.
Mrs.Franklyn-Haldene was one of those fortunate persons who always have their names in the society columns of the Sunday newspapers.
Either she was among those present, or she gave a luncheon, or she assisted at a reception, or was going out of town, or coming back.
Those who ran their husbands in debt to get into society always looked to see what Mrs.Haldene had been doing the past week.

The society reporters, very often smug young women of aristocratic but impoverished families, called her up by telephone every day in the week.

Mrs.Haldene pretended to demur, but the reporters found her an inexhaustible mine of tittle-tattle.

Sometimes they omitted some news which she considered important; and, as the saying goes, the hair flew.