unbearables

Updated: July 17, 2025

He neither danced nor talked, and so he was shunted by the really pleasant girls and clever women, and passed his time with wall-flowers and unbearables, who, in their normal sourness, regarded and, perhaps, unconsciously made him feel, hardly to his encouragement, that his companionship was a sort of penance.

Paul Leicester Ford - The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him