“You do things that are impulsive and unladylike and clumsy and even vulgar, he said. You chatter too much, you laugh too much, and you sparkle in a manner that is no way refined. And you attract almost everyone within you aura as a flame does a month. You think people despise you and scorn you and shun you, when the opposite is true. You have told me that you did not take well with the ton. I do not believe it. I believe you took very well indeed--or would have done if you have been allowed to . I do not know who put the idea into your head that you did not, but that person was wrong. Perhaps he could not bear the power of your light, or perhaps he could not bear to share it with his world. Perhaps he mistook the light for flirtation. That is what I think, Mrs. Derrick.”