We _can't_ produce such women as one sees here.

I tell you, Eugenie, we _can't_.

It takes all the poetry out of the sex.' Eugenie smiled.
'Haven't you been walking with Lady Marney, papa ?' Lord Findon looked a little annoyed.
'She's an exception, my dear--a hideous exception.' 'I wouldn't mind her size,' said Eugenie, softly--'if only the complexion were better done.' Lord Findon laughed.
'Paint is on the increase,' he declared--'and gambling too.

Villeton tells me there was baccarat in the Marney's' apartment last night, and Lady Marney lost enormously.

Age seems to have no effect on these people.