\"To all sorts of new and crazy social schemes. But, do you know, they interest me more than the blind conformity to tradition—somebody else's tradition—that I see among our own friends. It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.\" She smiled across the table. \"Do you suppose Christopher Columbus would have taken all that trouble just to go to the Opera with the Selfridge Merrys?\"
\"To all sorts of new and crazy social schemes. But, do you know, they interest me more than the blind conformity to tradition—somebody else's tradition—that I see among our own friends. It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.\" She smiled across the table. \"Do you suppose Christopher Columbus would have taken all that trouble just to go to the Opera with the Selfridge Merrys?\"
