Of course, every one hushed the thing up or else said the poor girl was sick; but Hetty knew, and what effect do you suppose it had upon a little girl like that, who had always been told what nice, irreproachable people went to the Cotillons?
Hetty will never be the same little girl now that she was before.

Oh, it makes me damned tired." "Well, I don't see," said Geary, "why the girls should make such a fuss about the men keeping straight.

I daresay now that this Stannard girl would cut us all dead if she knew how drunk we were that night about four months ago--that night that you fellows got thrown out of the Luxembourg." "No, I don't believe she would at all," said young Haight.
"She'd think better of you for it," put in Vandover.

"Look here," he went on, "all this talk of women demanding the same moral standard for men as men do for women is fine on paper, but how does it work in real life?
The women don't demand it at all.

Take the average society girl in a big city like this.