"She calls me 'little Puritan,' and says that my absurd morality has a Plymouth Rock cast. She has told me the reason I have but two friends."
"Has she? What is it?"
"It is because I am too intense for this day and generation. People don't like it. Frivolity and lightness of heart are much more to their taste."
"But what of your nature? Does that count for nothing? Is that not to be taken into consideration?"
"One's nature is a matter of education, nothing more. If that has been faulty, it should be rectified as quickly as possible."
"May I ask how she proposes that you shall rectify these defects of education?"
"Why, simply by imitating other people at first."
"Herself, for example?"
"Certainly."