Didn't you ?" "Pretty, most pretty; and admirable in technique and tone; but she has too much feeling to be really artistic.

She felt the thing, instead of pretending to feel it--which makes all the difference.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Still, all of that pleasant race will read their husband's letters and smuggle.

They have no civic virtues.

Yet they would be shocked to bathe on the beach without a machine, as American women do,--and they look for a new fall of Jerusalem when one of their sex smokes a cigarette after dinner.