"Mother will stand by me, Lily.

Will you ?" His sister's face reddened: "Louis," she said, "I am married; I have children, friends, a certain position to maintain.

You are unmarried, careless of conventions, uninterested in the kind of life that I and my friends have led, and will always lead.

The life, the society, the formalities, the conventional observances are all part of our lives, and make for our happiness and self-respect; but they mean absolutely nothing to you.

And you propose to invade our respectable and inoffensive seclusion with a conspicuous wife who has been a notorious professional model; and you demand of your family that they receive her as one of them! Louis, I ask you, is this fair to us ?" He said very gravely: "You have met Valerie West.