"I also 'fiddled' with manners—an unfortunate omission in your curriculum, I take it! You have been reasonably rude——"
"So have you!"
"I had to be! But I trust you begin to see that even your strong hand couldn't control a woman's taste. Kidnapping! As intelligent a boy as you wanting to imitate these boorish movie——"
"Not a darn bit more boorish than your smart set, with its champagne and these orgies at country clubs——"
"You know so much about country clubs, don't you! The worst orgy I ever saw at one was the golf champion reading the beauty department in Boudoir. Would you mind backing up your statements about the vices of myself and my friends——"
"Oh, you. Oh, I didn't mean——"
"Then why did you——"
"Now you're bullying me, and you know that if the smart set isn't vicious, at least it's so snobbish that it can't see any——"
"Then it's wise to be snobbish, because if it did condescend——"
"I won't stand people talking about condescending——"