[Now, then, Adele settles back in her chair and grins to herself, voice light and civil but the words, oh the words are anything but.]
What I mean to say is that you seem to be of the mind that if you paint yourself a lady, if you behave as a lady behaves, keep the company a lady ought to keep in which you have quite spectacularly failed already, and speaks as a lady speaks it will make a lady of you, Madame. That it will make you someone bright and important and respectable, someone with means and influence and affluence. That if you wear the right face and the right clothes and say the right things it will make you matter.
But all the pretty paint and wrapping in the enclosure cannot change that there is absolutely nothing of substance or value beneath. Paint yourself a lady, Madame. We both know you are without merit and entirely hollow.
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What I mean to say is that you seem to be of the mind that if you paint yourself a lady, if you behave as a lady behaves, keep the company a lady ought to keep in which you have quite spectacularly failed already, and speaks as a lady speaks it will make a lady of you, Madame. That it will make you someone bright and important and respectable, someone with means and influence and affluence. That if you wear the right face and the right clothes and say the right things it will make you matter.
But all the pretty paint and wrapping in the enclosure cannot change that there is absolutely nothing of substance or value beneath. Paint yourself a lady, Madame. We both know you are without merit and entirely hollow.