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As we drove home, she asked me:
"Is it like that all day long? Oh, please to let me live there!"
A nice English girl of eighteen would not flaunt unconcerned
about my drawing-room in a shameless dressing-gown, and crinkle
up her toes in front of me; still less would she tell me
outrageous stories; but she will wear low-necked dresses and gaze
at ladies in tights without the ghost of an immodest thought. I
was right when I told Carlotta England was Alexandretta upside-
down. What is immoral here is moral there, and vice-versa.
There is no such thing as absolute morality. I am very glad this
has happened. It shows me that Carlotta is not devoid of the
better kind of feminine instincts.


CHAPTER VIII

July 4th.
Judith has come back. I have seen her and I have explained
Carlotta.
All day long I felt like a respectable person about to be brought
before a magistrate for being drunk and disorderly. Now I have
the uneasy satisfaction of having been let off with a caution.


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