if anyone found fault with me for not being tender enough, or
having been kept too long."

"My idea about the lecture," resumed the Duchess hurriedly,
"is to inquire whether promiscuous Continental travel doesn't
tend to weaken the moral fibre of the social conscience.
There are people one knows, quite nice people when they are
in England, who are so DIFFERENT when they are anywhere the
other side of the Channel."

"The people with what I call Tauchnitz morals," observed
Reginald. "On the whole, I think they get the best of two
very desirable worlds. And, after all, they charge so much
for excess luggage on some of those foreign lines that it's
really an economy to leave one's reputation behind one
occasionally."

"A scandal, my dear Reginald, is as much to be avoided at
Monaco or any of those places as at Exeter, let us say."

"Scandal, my dear Irene--I may call you Irene, mayn't I?"

"I don't know that you have known me long enough for that."

"I've known you longer than your god-parents had when they
took the liberty of calling you that name. Scandal is merely
the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the
humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by
the blazing indiscretions of other people. Tell me, who is
the woman with the old lace at the table on our left? Oh,