a great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain

“an almost chemical change seemed to dissolve and recomposethe very elements of …”

“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — Go…”

“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father …”