Standards, people.

Standards and morals! Not whatever the spendthrifts had on Epstein Island.

"My interest in Mrs. Sims began when my mother told me about the disastrous hay-ride she had chaperoned at the age of fifteen. Mrs. Sims had been married when she was fourteen. I was going on sixteen and already felt a shadowy approaching dread of being an old maid. 'Sweet sixteen, and never been kissed,' our elders teased, and girls laughed coquettishly between hope and fear.

My mother said that fourteen was too young; she had married at nineteen.

'I want Ernestine to take her time, ' she often said. 'I tell her I'd just as soon she don't get married until she's twenty, even. A girl is only a girl once, and she'll be a long time married. Better be safe than sorry, I tell her.'"

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