It's run out of them, Mary, like the sands through an hour-glass.

They can speak correctly, and I dare say they know all the small society tricks.

But that isn't everything.

They don't know how to dress.

They can spend just as much as they like, and then you can come into the room in a black gown as you made yourself, and you look a lady, and they don't.
That's the long and short of it.