"I suppose I am old-fashioned"--there was a murmur of polite dissent from all the ladies present, except the one addressed--"Oh, I take it as a compliment nowadays, I assure you; but when I was a girl a young lady would have no more thought of flying than of"--she paused almost on a note of pained surprise at finding the familiar comparison of a lifetime cut off--"well, of standing on her head." "No," replied the young lady in point, with the unfeeling candour that marked the youthful spirit of the age, "because it wasn't invented. But you went bicycling, and your mothers were very shocked at first."…
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