Well, anyway, you've got through the ordeal, and now you're a full-fledged 'bud.' Aren't you proud ?" "Rather! Is the society limited to ten ?" "Sorority, please, not society.

It's limited because there isn't anybody else in the Transition who's worth asking to join.

Most of them are a set of utter sneaks.

They may take Rachel's oath about preserving their nationality and all the rest of it, but if they're to be counted specimens of Anglo-American honor it makes one blush for one's mother country whichever side of the ocean it happens to be on.

Oh, you don't know most of them yet! Wait till you find them out." "You'll be glad then you belong to us." "Not that we're perfect, of course." "We don't set up as Pharisees." "On the whole we're rather a lot of lunatics." "We just have a little sport among ourselves to keep things humming." "Well, now Irene understands, we'd best get her fixed up with a 'buddy' and close the meeting." "But I _don't_ understand.