'America is so horribly changed, so vulgarised.

The people they accept socially! And the cost of things! My dear, the last time I went to the States I had to pay five hundred francs--one hundred dollars--for my winter hat! _Je vous demande!_ If they will drive us out they must take the consequences.' Althea felt tempted to inquire what these might be.

Miss Robinson sometimes roused a slight irony in her; but she received the expostulation with a dim smile.
'Why won't you settle here ?' Miss Robinson continued, 'or in Rome--there is quite a delightful society in Rome--or Florence, or London.

Not that I could endure the English winter.' 'I've sometimes thought of England,' said Althea.
'Well, do think of it.

I'm perfectly disinterested.