His mother, with less than her usual sensitiveness to atmosphere, still insisted: \"I've always thought that people like the Countess Olenska, who have lived in aristocratic societies, ought to help us to keep up our social distinctions, instead of ignoring them.\"
May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith.
\"I've no doubt we all seem alike to foreigners,
His mother, with less than her usual sensitiveness to atmosphere, still insisted: \"I've always thought that people like the Countess Olenska, who have lived in aristocratic societies, ought to help us to keep up our social distinctions, instead of ignoring them.\"
May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith.
\"I've no doubt we all seem alike to foreigners,
