"And fashionably."
"O, fashionably! of course."
"What's left to a man when he ceases to be fashionable?"
"Well, of course he chooses a new set of associates."
"But if Tom Caruthers had married as you say he wanted to marry, his wife would have come at once into his circle, and made one of it?"
"Provided she could hold the place."
"Of that I have no doubt."
"It was a great gain to Tom that he missed."
"The world has odd balances to weigh loss and gain!" said Philip.
"Why, Philip, in addition to everything else, these girls are religious;—not after a reasonable fashion, you know, but puritanical; prejudiced, and narrow, and stiff."