Excerpt from Mrs. Hephaestus: And Other Short Stories, Together With West Point, a Comedy in Three Acts

I saw Mrs. Hephaestus often after that even ing. She spent a great deal of time in mother's apartments, and I met her there almost every afternoon. Mother and Jennie both liked her, and were never tired of praising her. I did not share their unbounded admiration. In Spite of her beauty, her wit, and her evident po sitiou in society, something seemed to whisper to me, This is not 'a woman with whom your mother and your sister ought to be intimate.

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