Chapter 52

"Thanks," said the lady, "but it might turn out a super-cigarette and disagree with me. How astonishingly well-informed you Germans are upon the subject of yourselves! I've met heaps of your countrymen whom the subject seemed perfectly to obsess. I suppose they begin to teach you at a very early age, don't they? Don't you suppose they would, Cynthia dear?" Mrs. Charterhouse agreed. "Of course. But I wonder if that sort of--might one call it--intensive culture?--can be good for you?" With her charming head on o…