When you met Lady Gwendolen, not a breath of scandal had ever touched her.

Is there a single decent woman in London now who would drive with her in the park?
Why, even her children are not allowed to live with her.

Then there are other stories--stories that you have been seen creeping at dawn out of dreadful houses and slinking in disguise into the foulest dens in London.

Are they true?
Can they be true?
When I first heard them, I laughed.

I hear them now, and they make me shudder.