In New York you could make a really great career." "Get rich--be right in the social swim--and you too," suggested he.
"It certainly is very satisfactory to feel one is of the best people.
And I'm sure you'd not care to have me mix up with all sorts, as politicians' wives have to do." He laughed at her--the loud, coarse Josh Craig outburst.

"You're stark mad on the subject of class distinctions, aren't you ?" said he.

"You'll learn some day to look on that sort of thing as you would on an attempt to shovel highways and set up sign-posts in the open sea.

Your kind of people are like the children that build forts out of sand at the seashore.

Along comes a wave and washes it all away....