“She rides quite well and reads lots of reviews and remember what people say. So her sporting friends think her a blue stocking and her intellectual friends admire her physical powers and – as if that weren’t enough – she is also a perfect lady. Such a perfect lady! She never raises her voice, she never fidgets, she never contradicts, she never gets untidy. She is always decorative, really decorative – lovely lines of neck and shoulder and arm and instep. And she always sits by a lamp. That, to me, is her great redeeming point. Asking her to one’s house is like ordering flowers. I am told that she is a heart of gold, but how am I ever to find out? “
[Lady Elizabeth (Charlotte Lucy) Asquith Princess Antoine Bibesco – “The Fir and the Palm” – 1924]
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