“First, of course, is the Eleventh Commandment,”
“And what is that?” Nolita had enquired.
“Thou shall not he found out!”
“Really, Harry! You should not say such things in front of the child!” her mother had cried.
“If she does not learn it from me, she will find out about it for herself,” her father answered.
“Sins are not important in the Social world, Nolita, if they are swept under the carpet,” he went on, “but they are wicked if they get talked about and most reprehensible of all if they appear in the newspapers!”
Nolita had actually been too young to understand what her father was saying, but later, when she grew older, she did.
She learnt not from her parents but from their friends that people in the Social world who were married had love affairs, but as long as they were cond
