Excerpt from Good Americans
Then we may depend upon you for the 15th?" said Mrs. Grantham, scarcely believing her good luck.
"So good of you to let me come," suavely answered her school-friend of former days - known to the world of fashion, of whom she was the starry leader, and to the other world in our broad continent that comforts its uninteresting existence by reading about the doings of a few New-Yorkers, as Mrs. Jack Stanley.
"I want to try to get together for you some really clever, cultivated people," went on Mrs. Grantham, a flush of excitement mounting to her cheeks.
"Do, dear; I love novelty," rejoined Mrs. Stanley. "Katrina, you have no idea how dull it is, night after night, meeting the same old set! When we are standing around, waiting for dinner to be announced, I sometimes wonder which of the men is going to pounce on me, and there"s not an emotion in my being for one more than another. But what is to be done?
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