"Of course there are girls like--like Henrietta Vance who belong to the Cotillon and make it what it is, and what it ought to be.

But there are other girls like Mrs.Doane and Lilly Stannard and the Trafford girls that like their champagne pretty well now, and don't you forget it! Oh, you know, I wouldn't call it getting drunk, though." "Well, why not ?" exclaimed young Haight impatiently.

"Why not call it 'getting drunk ?' Why not call things by their right name?
You can see just how bad they are then; and I think it's shameful that such things can go on in an organization that is supposed to contain the very best people in the city.

Now, I just want to tell you what I saw at one of these same Cotillons in the first part of the season.

Lilly Stannard disappeared after supper and people said she was sick and was going home, but I knew exactly what was the matter, because I had seen her at the supper table.