It is because I do not like the life into which you have brought me, nor the people with whom we live.

I do not like late hours, supper parties and dinner parties, dances where half the people are bourgeois, and where all the men make stupid love to me.

I do not like the shops, the vulgar shop people, fashionable clothes, and fashionable promenading.

I am tired of it already.

If I am rich, why may I not buy the right to live as I choose ?" The Princess rarely allowed herself to show surprise.