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 Hermione quite a shock right at first to see everybody come into a dining-room or a drawing-room looking like Achilles does.

Not that temperament makes so much difference as it did a few years ago, you know—temperament and personality are going out and individuality is coming in.

Have you thought much about automatic writing?

It’s being taken up again, you know.

Not the vulgar, old-fashioned kind of spiritualism—that was so ordinary, wasn’t it?

The new ghosts are different. More—more—well, more refined, somehow, you know. Like the new dances as compared with that horrid turkey-trot.

One should always ask one’s self: “Does this have a refining influence on me; and through me on the world?”

For, after all, there is a duty one owes to society in general.

Have you seen the new sunshades?