'But Hazel did not speak of your going anywhere?'
'Take my report of the matter, and let Hazel's alone.'
'Well, she certainly is right in one thing; you did not go to Mrs.
Schornstein's reception?'
'She is right; we did not.'
'Nor to the ball at Mrs. Powder's?'
'True; we did not.'
'Don't you think you ought?'
'If we had thought we ought, I suppose we should have gone,' said Dane, with a manner of lazy indifference which sometimes came over him.
'But my dear! There are things one owes to Society.'
'I believe I never understood what is meant by my obligations to Society,' said Dane. 'What has Society done, that we should be in debt to it?'