They worry themselves about it in secret and wish they could appear more ladylike--i.e.thin and white.

Nor can they feel quite so languid and indifferent, and _blase_ as they desire.

Thank Heaven they cannot! But they have succeeded in obliterating the faintest trace of character, and in suppressing the slightest approach to animation.

They have all got just the same opinions on the same topics--that is to say, they have none at all; the idea of a laugh has departed.

There is a dead line of uniformity.