The Age of Innocence

with all the doors wide open, and always a servant bringing tea, or a log for the fire, or the newspaper! Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self? You're so shy, and yet you're so public. I always feel as if I were in the convent again—or on the stage, before a dreadfully polite audience that never applauds.\"

\"Ah, you don't like us!\" Archer exclaimed.

They were walking past the house of the old Patroon,


481 of 1313

with all the doors wide open, and always a servant bringing tea, or a log for the fire, or the newspaper! Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self? You're so shy, and yet you're so public. I always feel as if I were in the convent again—or on the stage, before a dreadfully polite audience that never applauds.\"

\"Ah, you don't like us!\" Archer exclaimed.

They were walking past the house of the old Patroon,


481 of 1313