![]() ![]() The girl herself seemed, frankly, not to understand the seriousness of her position, and was very flippant and not a little rude. ![]() According to him a Mayo is beyond criticism, and his sister's reputation her own to deal with. I knew her mother years ago, and I took it upon myself to expostulate both with Diana and her brother, but Sir Aubrey is hedged around with an egotistical complacency that would defy a pickaxe to penetrate. But nothing can excuse this scandalous escapade. ![]() I am not forgetting her unusual upbringing, interrupted Lady Conway. It is certainly unconventional and-er-probably not quite wise, but remember Miss Mayo's unusual upbringing. Oh, come, Lady Conway! It's not quite so bad as all that. It is the maddest piece of unprincipled folly I have ever heard of." No opportunity is slight enough for our continental neighbour to cast stones, and this opportunity is very far from being slight. We English cannot be too careful of our behavior abroad. I consider that even by contemplating such a tour alone into the desert with no chaperon or attendant of her own sex, with only native camel drivers and servants, Diana Mayo is behaving with a recklessness and impropriety that is calculated to cast a slur not only on her own reputation, but also on the prestige of her country. I thoroughly disapprove of the expedition of which this dance is the inauguration. ARE YOU COMING IN TO watch the dancing, Lady Conway? ![]()
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