11/37 With wealth, and wit, and social charm, and impudence, she may preserve it for some years, but when she has once lost it she can never recover it. I am as much lost to the people who did know me in London as though I had been buried for a century. A man makes himself really useful, but a woman can never do that." "All those general rules mean nothing," said Phineas. "I should try it." "No, Phineas. |