“society” which looks on all originality
as eccentricity, “and eccentricity is such
bad form, you know!” Years after 1
met her again. What was she? A ma
chine with the springs taken out; a bobo
link taught to sing fashionable music; a
beautiful, lifeless creature to put fine
clothes on, to take to the opera, to be
possibly betrayed into a well bred smile.
Thu snafllebit and checkrein of “socie
ty” had done their work.
