They don't reckon with the attitude of women.

This is New York--not Paris.

Such things are years off.

I don't say they'll not come or that women won't use them--but not by that name--not yet." Constance wondered what his cynical inconsequentialities masked.
"I think it adds to the interest," she observed, watching him furtively, "this evasion of the laws." Drummond was casting about for something to do and, naturally, to a mind like his, a drink was the solution.

Evidently, however, there were degrees of brazenness, even in tea rooms.