I'm sorry you could not be here." "Thank you; so am I--though usually, I will confess, I'm not much good at attending 'functions' and meeting strangers.

As perhaps you've guessed, Miss Neilson, I'm not particularly a society chap." "Of course you aren't! People who are doing things--real things--seldom are.

But we aren't the society kind ourselves, you know--not the capital S kind.

We like sociability, which is vastly different from liking Society.

Oh, we have friends, to be sure, who dote on 'pink teas and purple pageants,' as Cyril calls them; and we even go ourselves sometimes.