We have all the advantages of a great metropolis without the drawbacks.

Fairbridge is a most charming city, and very progressive, yes, very progressive." Mrs.Slade took it rather hardly that Mrs.Snyder should intimate anything prejudicial to Fairbridge and especially that it was not good enough for Alice Mendon, who had been born there, and lived there all her life except the year she had been in college.

If anything, she, Mrs.Slade, wondered if Alice Mendon were good enough for Fairbridge.

What had she ever done, except to wear handsome costumes and look handsome and self-possessed?
Although she belonged to the Zenith Club, no power on earth could induce her to discharge the duties connected herewith, except to pay her part of the expenses, and open her house for a meeting.

She simply would not write a paper upon any interesting and instructive topic and read it before the club, and she was not considered gifted.