"You can't help--they're not your kind.

Don't you mix into this affair." But Deborah did.

She remembered that her sister had once shown quite a talent for amateur theatricals; and to give Laura something to do, Deborah persuaded her to take a dramatic club in her school.

And Laura, rather to Roger's surprise, became an enthusiast down there.

She worked like a slave at rehearsals, and upon the costumes she spent money with a lavish hand.
Moreover, instead of being annoyed, as Edith was, at Deborah's prominence in the press, Laura gloried in it, as though this "radical" sister of hers were a distinct social asset among her giddy friends uptown.