"The society I might care for hasn't the slightest interest in me.

There is in this city a kind of society recruited largely from the fashionable hotels and from among those who have no fixed social position in New York--people who are never very far outside or inside the edge of things--but who never penetrate any farther." She laughed.

"This society camps permanently at the base of the Great Wall of China.

But it never scales it." "Watch the men on Fifth Avenue," she went on.

"Some walk there as though they do not belong there; some walk as though they do belong there; some, as though they lived there.