The bill was something stunning; but, then, it was voted by the young people that she had never looked so splendidly in her life; and she comforted herself with marking out a certain sublime distance and reserve of manner to be observed towards Mrs.Seymour and the Follingsbees.
The young people, however, came home delighted.

Tom, aged twenty-two, instructed his mother that Follingsbee was a brick, and a real jolly fellow; and he had accepted an invitation to go on a yachting cruise with him the next month.

Jane Lennox, moreover, began besetting her mother to have certain details in their house rearranged, with an eye to the Seymour glorification.
"Now, Jane dear, that's just the result of allowing you to visit in this flash, vulgar genteel society," said the troubled mamma.
"Bless your heart, mamma, the world moves on, you know; and we must move with it a little, or be left behind.

For my part, I'm perfectly ashamed of the way we let things go at our house.

It really is not respectable.