And if it is a part of your program that this girl is to be accepted by an old-fashioned society, now almost obsolete, but in which this family is merely a single superannuated unit, that program can never be carried out." "I think you are mistaken," he said.
"I know I am not.

It is inevitable that if you marry this girl she will be more or less ignored, isolated, humiliated, overlooked outside our own little family circle.

Even in that limited mob which the newspapers call New York Society--in that modern, wealthy, hard-witted, over-jewelled, self-sufficient league which is yet too eternally uncertain of its own status to assume any authority or any responsibility for a stranger without credentials,--it would not be possible to make Valerie West acceptable in the slightest sense of the word.

Because she is too well known; her beauty is celebrated; she has become famous.

Her only chance there--or with us--would have been in her absolute anonymity.