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 Urges and Dogs I've just about dropped it myself. It's the same way with everything exclusive. It soon becomes common.

Really, I hadn't worn my white summer furs three weeks before I saw so many imitations that I just simply had to lay them aside.

Don t you think that people who take up things like that, after the real leaders have dropped them, are frightfully lacking in subtlety?

Oh, Subtlety! Subtlety! What would modern thought be without Subtlety?

Personally, I just simply hate the Obvious. It's so—so—well, so easily seen through, if you know what I mean.

Fothy Finch said to me only the other day, &quot;Has it ever occurred to you, Hermione, that you are not an Obvious sort of person?&quot;

It is almost uncanny the way Fothergil Finch can read my thoughts sometimes. We are both so very psychic.

Mamma said to me last night, &quot;You are seeing a great deal of Mr. Finch, Hermione. Do you think it is right to encourage him if you don't intend to marry him? What are your intentions with regard to Mr. Finch?&quot;

I didn't answer her at all—poor dear Mamma is so old-fashioned!

But I thought to myself—— [51]