I walked home with a lighter step, for that night had knocked something loose in me, something long overdue to be knocked. At long last, I saw that group for what they were, with a few exceptions - a queer assortment of layabouts and late risers, most overdrawn at the bank or at least cutting into principal, only interested in who's going in the drawer at the Maidstone Club or their wedge on the fifteenth hole at Pebble Beach or dressing down the staff about a bit of shell in the lobster while shoveling canapés in. Jinx had done me a favor, freed me of any lingering allegiances to New York Society, snipped my fear of being on their bad side. Martha Hall Kelly
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New York Society is the most influential group in the world. People who are part of this group never want to jeopardize their reputation. If someone does something that could possibly tarnish their reputation, they will do anything they can to avoid it. However, once they leave New York, there is no one to protect them. That person then has to rely on his or her own strengths to showcase what value they have rather than relying on the power of New York Society to back them up.

Source: Lilac Girls

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