Lady Mealhead said she couldn't stand Kitty Whyte at any price.

We are sorry to use such a word as indecency in connection with a young person of the gentler sex, but facts must sometimes be recognized.

And it is a bare fact that society tolerated, nay, encouraged, Kitty Whyte, because society never knew, and always wanted to know, what she would say next.
She sailed so near to the unsteady breeze of decorum that the safer-going craft hung breathlessly in her wake in the hope of an upset.
Every one, in fact, was there.

All those who have had greatness thrust upon them, and the others, those who thrust themselves upon the great--those, in a word, who reach such as are above them by doing that which should be beneath them.

Lord Mealhead, by the way, was not there.
He never is anywhere where the respectable writer and his high-born reader are to be found.