I must say I do prefer society. We have n't been to the Kursaal for
four days--we have only gone out for a drive. We have taken the most
interminable drives. I do believe we have seen every old ruin in
the whole country. Mrs. Vivian and Angela are so awfully fond of
scenery--they talk about it by the half-hour. They talk about the
mountains and trees as if they were people they knew--as if they were
gentlemen! I mean as if the mountains and trees were gentlemen. Of
course scenery 's lovely, but you can't walk about with a tree. At any
rate, that has been all our society--foliage! Foliage and women; but I
suppose women are a sort of foliage. They are always rustling about and
dropping off. That 's why I could n't make up my mind to go out
with them this afternoon. They 've gone to see the Waterworths--the
Waterworths arrived yesterday and are staying at some hotel. Five
daughters--all unmarried! I don't know what kind of foliage they are;
some peculiar kind--they don't drop off. I thought I had had about
enough ladies' society--three women all sticking together! I don't think
it 's good for a young girl to have nothing but ladies' society--it 's
so awfully limited. I suppose I ought to stand up for my own sex and
tell you that when we are alone together we want for nothing.
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