20/29 If I were a man myself I should go in for everything I ought to leave alone. But you see,--I'm not a man, and I must take care of myself. The wrong side of a post for a woman is so very much the wrong side. I like a fast man, but I know that I must not dare to marry the sort of man that I like." "To be one of us, then,--the very first among us;--would that be the wrong side ?" "You mean that to be Lady Chiltern in the present tense, and Lady Brentford in the future, would be promotion for Violet Effingham in the past ?" "How hard you are, Violet!" "Fancy,--that it should come to this,--that you should call me hard, Laura. |