George and Marian Faraday were so beautifully brought up that they never had any ideas more unusual than the ideas of Peachtree Street, on which they were born. Eleanor and Arthur Faraday were no more than nicely brought up, but they were always able to take the serious view of the Piedmont Driving Club’s importance which made Eleanor Faraday a satisfactory partner for its most fashionable members. But Alex and Katharine Faraday were not brought up at all, except when they risked a crime so noisy that it reached the ears of a mother absorbed by two daughters who had attained every social honour except marriage. They were escorted to the correct kindergarten when they reached the age of four and to the correct schools when they reached the age of six. But they began their education in a room which had some reason for being called a library, and since their mother still proclaimed her elegant adherence
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