“Good heavens. Can’t you see those women. But that must be by an American.”
“Why an American?”
“Oh. I don’t know. You can tell. Are you going to try all these things?”
“Rather. We’re going in heavily for beauty culture.”
“We are going to skip, and have Turkish baths, and steam our faces.”
“I suppose one ought.”
“I think so. I don’t see why one should look old before one’s time. One’s life is ageing and ravaging. After a Turkish bath one feels like a new-born babe.”
“But it would take all one’s time and money.”
“Even so. It restores your self-respect to feel perfectly groomed and therefore perfectly self-possessed. It makes the office respect you.”
“I know. I hate the grubbiness of snipe-life—sometimes.”