"Certainly. Candidates may hail from anywhere—excepting naturally the United States.
"But what, I wonder, has caused this tide of applications?"
"The Moon, of course. The fiction that Clorinda Bell intended to take the secular veil has attracted all these imitators. She has given the Club a good advertisement in endeavoring merely to give herself one."
"You suspect her, then, of being herself responsible for the statement that she was going to join the Club?"
"No. I am sure of it. Who but herself knew that she was not?"
"I can hardly imagine that she would employ such base arts."
"Higher arts are out of employment nowadays."
"Is there any way of finding out?"
"I am afraid not. She has no bosom friends. Stay—there is her mother!"
"Mothers do not tell their daughters' secrets. They do not know them."