Gerald phrases things so perfectly."
"Well, I've had enough of trying to manage a waterfall!" Mrs. Sequin
said grimly. "Cousin John asked me to take her in hand, and I must say
I am finding her difficult. Perfectly sweet and good natured, you
know, but she goes right on her own way. She has decided that she
likes Connie's friends better than the Doctor's, that her hair doesn't
feel right arranged the way it should be, that she isn't going to wear
dresses made by fashionable dressmakers because they are
uncomfortable. She actually told me she liked to be a few minutes out
of style!"
"But isn't she right?" murmured Mrs. Ivy. "God has given her a
graceful, symmetrical body, shouldn't she clothe it in flowing robes
that do not confine or--"
"For Heaven's sake, Mrs. Ivy, don't you dare start her on dress
reform! Her one chance for social success is her beauty. She simply
terrifies me the way she says right out the first thing that comes
into her mind. It will take me months to teach her the first lesson in
society, that the most immodest thing in the world is the naked
truth."
"What I hope to rouse in the dear girl," said Mrs.
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