'you ca n't drink a fifth of french brandy every day of your life and live forever , ' said dandrich with weary , mocking gestures , as if to suggest the subject bored him , when in fact , he loved it 'and the affair with pierce is outrageous why , the boy is scarcely eighteen it really is so perfectly stupid of stella to do this why , cortland was her chief ally against carlotta , and now she 's gone and seduced cortland 's favorite son1 i do n't think barclay or garland much approves of the situation either and god only knows how lionel stands it lionel is a monomaniac and the name of his monomania is stella , of course ' was dandrich going to the party ?