15/42 "American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at concealing their past," he said, rising to go. I am told that pork-packing is the most lucrative profession in America, after politics." "Is she pretty ?" "She behaves as if she was beautiful. It is the secret of their charm." "Why can't these American women stay in their own country? That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it," said Lord Henry. |