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"We cannot help spoiling the men" says a distressed party-giver in these latitudes, conscious that this state of things is not right, and half-ashamed of herself for giving in to it "there are really so few of them." The sons of families of the middle and upper classes as they grow up are sent out to India, to the army, to America, or to the Australian colonies.
To say of a certain party-giver that she had "about every bank clerk in town" was to announce the success of her entertainment in ultimate terms.
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