She was sure she had not seen it all--that the city was one whirl of pleasure and delight.
Going out, the same Broadway taught her a sharper lesson.

The scene she had witnessed coming down was now augmented and at its height.

Such a crush of finery and folly she had never seen.

It clinched her convictions concerning her state.

She had not lived, could not lay claim to having lived, until something of this had come into her own life.
Women were spending money like water; she could see that in every elegant shop she passed.