Touchett resides in Florence, I haven't had much chance to
notice about the young ladies. It sometimes appears as if the young
women in the lower class were not very well treated; but I guess their
position is better in the upper and even to some extent in the
middle."
"Gracious," Isabel exclaimed; "how many classes have they? About
fifty, I suppose."
"Well, I don't know that I ever counted them. I never took much
notice of the classes. That's the advantage of being an American here;
you don't belong to any class."
"I hope so," said Isabel. "Imagine one's belonging to an English
class!"
"Well, I guess some of them are pretty comfortable- especially
towards the top. But for me there are only two classes: the people I
trust and the people I don't. Of those two, my dear Isabel, you belong
to the first."
"I'm much obliged to you," said the girl quickly. Her way of
taking compliments seemed sometimes rather dry; she got rid of them as
rapidly as possible. But as regards this she was sometimes
misjudged, she was thought insensible to them, whereas in fact she was
simply unwilling to show how infinitely they pleased her. To show that
was to show too much.
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