He is quite wrong," Robert would argue. "Every young woman should know how to comport herself, and how to mix in society." "Surely it depends upon the society?" I would reply, despite my anxiety to learn. "Take aunt Anne at Chérigny. Neither she, nor my uncle Viau, can sign their names properly, and they do very well as they are." "No doubt," said Robert, "and they will never move from Chérigny to the end of their days. You wait until I have a glass-house of my own, in Paris, and you come to visit me there. I can't introduce my sister to society unless she does me credit.
( Daphne du Maurier )
[ The Glass-Blowers ]
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