13/26 She is willing to come to us on New Year's Day, and receive with you--to bring all her acquaintances into your house, and make them yours and mine." "Is it possible ?" "Yes; and I think we should be most ungrateful and discourteous to her, as well as impolitic with relation to ourselves and to our social future, not to accept the proposition." "I don't think I care to be under obligations to Mrs.Dillingham for society, or care for the society she will bring us. I am not pleased with a proposition of this kind that comes through my husband. If she were my friend it would be a different matter, but she is not. If I were to feel myself moved to invite some lady to come here and receive with me, it would be well enough; but this proposition is a stroke of patronage as far as I am concerned, and I don't like it. It is like Mrs. |