Yes, I was at
several parties, and had a good opportunity of seeing many people."
"Did you form as favorable opinions of the fair sex, there as those
of our set?"
"You absurd girl! what a question! Well, to be candid, I saw much to
approve and much to disapprove. One thing I did not like--that was
the young ladies invariably flirted with the married gentlemen, and
_vice versa_,--anything I despise in this world is a male
flirt."
Helen Rushton drew herself up proudly and looked the embodiment of
scorn and disgust.
"And I dare say little Helen was not behind in the list, for you
see, girls, she favors it among the fair beauties."
"Josie Jordan, I would not stoop so far beneath the dignity of woman
as to indulge in the most 'harmless flirtation,' and I pity the
woman who does so; but man, with all his high sense of honor, and in
possession of those manly graces which, when properly directed, are
a guiding-star to society, falls low indeed when he becomes what is
generally termed a flirt."
"Dear me," cried Josie, "and you really passed through the campaign
without making an attack upon any of the celestials?"
"I am not going to tell you, Josie.
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