“The wicked dye young.”
“But she is the real thing. That is the way with a good many of her other traits. She is more genuine than she gets credit for being. If it comes to that, society is very cynical. It is always suspecting a bleach.”
“I am sorry to have suggested the cynicism of society. I fancy you feel toward Mrs. Stellmore as I sometimes feel toward Stenson. Stenson—Dick knows him—is one of the cleverest men you ever would be likely to meet. He has been everywhere, has seen everything and everybody, and has the most entertaining stories to tell of any place or any person you are likely to mention. Now, of some people you have a fashion of saying to yourself, ‘He is probably lying.’ But with Stenson you have an uneasy feeling at the thought that probably he is telling the truth.”
“Then I should call Stenson a sort of personified newspaper. That is the way I always feel about newspapers. It is very annoying.”
“But that is an unwholesome attitude of mind. Every woman should believe one man and one newspaper, just as every man should, and I believe generally does, believe one woman and one newspaper.”
“What an extraordinary theory.”