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Updated: June 5, 2025
SHE had lived in Washington for a year. She was tired of the office. It was tolerable, far more tolerable than housework, but it was not adventurous. She was having tea and cinnamon toast, alone at a small round table on the balcony of Rauscher's Confiserie. Four debutantes clattered in.
The celluloid-queens had certain pages allotted to them, the actresses certain pages. But there was another realm where women were portrayed in fashionable gowns debutantes, brides, matrons. And their realm was called "The Social World." These women toiled not, earned not; they only spent money and time as they pleased. They were in "society," and she was out of it.
I suppose there were an immense number of people present? 'Yes, and particularly débutantes; there were a great number presented this year. It was considered a large Drawing-Room. 'And how are you presented? I've heard my sister speak about it, but I never quite understood. At that moment Barnes brought in the tea. She set it on a little table used for the purpose.
M. Paul would have placed the hysteric debutantes between two fires terror of the audience, and terror of himself and would have inspired them with the courage of desperation, by making the latter terror incomparably the greater: M. Josef could not do this. Following the white muslin pianistes, came a fine, full-grown, sulky lady in white satin. She sang.
A constant little stream of women came and went, handsome, awkward school-girls, in town for the dentist or to be fitted to shoes, or for the matinee; debutantes, in their exquisite linens and summer silks, all joyous chatter and laughter; and plainly-gowned, well-groomed, middle-aged women, escorting or chaperoning, and pausing here for greetings and the interchange of news.
It was at a theatre party that the three debutantes first met Charlie Mershone, but they saw little of him that first evening and scarcely noticed his presence.
First impressions are not made on women of Cecil Tresilyan's class so easily as they are upon guileless débutantes; but they are far more important and lasting. It is useless attempting to pass off counterfeit coin on those expert money-changers; but they value the pure gold all the more when it rings sharp and true. It is always so with those who have once been Queens of Beauty.
Never an earlier twelvemonth had the women of New Orleans nor of any town or time the gentlewomen spent in more unselfish or arduous toil. Flora was getting her share. This, he said, was a women's a gentlewomen's war. "Ah!" A stir of assent ran through all the gathering. The long married, the newly wed, the affianced, the suspected, the débutantes, the post-marriageable, every one approved.
Carey could in the least overhear. At the end of it Mr. Lehmann nodded acquiescence, and said, "Very well, then;" and straightway he departed, for he was a busy man, and had little time to waste on the smaller courtesies of life especially in the case of débutantes. Lionel returned to the young lady whose fate had just been decided. "That's all right, Nina," he said.
She did what her sister débutantes did, and some things they did not do, was asked where they were asked, decorated the same tier of boxes at the opera, appeared in the same short-skirted entertainments of the Junior League, saw what they saw, was seen where they were seen, chattered, danced, and flirted with the same youths, was smitten by the popular "dancing" man, convalesced in average time, smoked her first cigarette, fell a victim to the handsome and horrid married destroyer, recovered with a shock when, as usual, he overdid it, played at being engaged, was kissed once or twice, adored Sembrich, listened ignorantly but with intuitive shudders to her first scandals, sent flowers to Ethel Barrymore, kept Lent with the pure fervour of a conscience troubled and untainted, drove four in the coaching parade, and lunched afterward at the Commonwealth Club, where her name was subsequently put up for election.
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