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I was never in the least danger, Myrtle. Aren't we gossiping rather dreadfully? I've been wondering—she looked up with a smile that transformed her seriousness into a gentle radiance—what a newcomer like Mr. Leitzel's wife, doomed to live here, will do with us and our social life, if she really is a woman of breeding and culture. I wonder whether it would be possible this winter to make our social coming together count for something more than—well, than just an utter waste of time. What is there in it all—our afternoon teas, auction bridge, luncheons, dinners, dances. The dances are of course the best thing we do because they are at least refreshing and rejuvenating. But don't you think, Myrtle, that we might make it all more worth while?

There's the Ladies' Literary Club, Myrtle suggested, for those that want something 'worth while,' as you put it. I think it's an awful bore myself.

Of course it is, Mary agreed.

But what would you suggest then?

I suppose it is after all a question of what is in ourselves. A dozen literary clubs at which we read abstracts from encyclopedias wouldn't alter the fact that when we get together we have so little, so little to give to each other!

Oh, I don't know! protested Myrtle. We all read all the latest books and magazines and talk about them, and——

At an adjoining table another phase of the agitating news was being threshed out.

If she's what the papers say she is, I suppose she'll turn up her nose at New Munich, said the daughter of the Episcopal rector.

Oh, I don't think she need put on any airs! said Miss Ocksreider, the hostess's daughter. I've visited down South and I can tell you we're enough more up to date here in New Munich. Nearly every one down there, even their aristocrats, is so poor that up here they wouldn't be anybody. It's awfully queer the way those Southerners don't care anything about appearances. They tell you right out they can't afford this and that, and they don't seem to think anything of wearing clothes all out of style. There was an awfully handsome new house in the town where I stopped, and when I asked the hotel clerk who lived in it and if they weren't great swells, he said: 'Oh, no, they are not in society; they're not one of our families, though they're very nice people, of course, members of church and good to the poor and all like that.' 'Not in society in a little town like this Leesburg, and living in a mansion like that?' I said. Yes, that's the way they are down there.


by pausety | 2017-08-15 12:14

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