MAMMA IS SO MID-VICTORIAN
WE'VE been taking up Hedonism lately—our Little Group of Modern Thinkers, you know—and it's wonderful, just simply wonderful!
Though Mamma—poor dear Mamma is so hopelessly old-fashioned;—has entirely the wrong idea about it.
"Hermione," she said to me the other evening, after the little talk, "what did the lecturer call himself?"
"He's a Hedonist," I said.
"Indeed!" she said, "and what sort of modern impropriety is Hedonism? Is it something about Sex, or is it something about Psychics?"
I simply couldn't speak.
I just gave her a look and walked out of the room. It is absolutely useless to attempt to explain anything to Mamma.
She is so Mid-Victorian!
And Mid-Victorianism has quite gone out, you know. Really. The loveliest man gave us a talk on the Mid-Victorian recently, and when he was
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