"I've heard strange tales of your orgies." Diana was really amused.

This girl was proving more interesting than the first niece she had interviewed.

Unaccustomed to seeking acquaintances outside her own exclusive circle, and under such circumstances, these meetings were to her in the nature of an adventure.
A creature of powerful likes and dislikes, she already hated Beth most heartily; but for that very reason she insisted on cultivating her further acquaintance.
"You must not judge society by the mad pranks of a few of its members," she responded, in her most agreeable manner.

"If we are not to set an example in decorum to the rest of the world we are surely unfitted to occupy the high place accorded us.

But you must see and decide for yourself." "I?
No, indeed!" "Ah, do not decide hastily, my dear.