I won't have to humiliate myself like that a second time." "But I presume you will still continue to go out somewhere," protested Condy Rivers.
She shook her head.
"I have thought it all over, and I've talked about it with Papum.
There's no half way about it.

The only way to stop is to stop short.
Just this afternoon I've regretted three functions for next week, and I shall resign from the 'Saturday Evening.' Oh, it's not the Jack Carter affair alone!" she exclaimed; "the whole thing tires me.

Mind, Condy," she exclaimed, "I'm not going to break with it because I have any 'purpose in life,' or that sort of thing.

I want to have a good time, and I'm going to see if I can't have it in my own way.

If the kind of thing that makes Jack Carter possible is conventionality, then I'm done with conventionality for good.