Chapter 14

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌​‌​⁠Persis was not of the period or the set that thinks much of family. In fact, the whole world and its aristocracies have been shaken by too many earthquakes of late to leave walls standing high enough to keep youth from overlooking and overstepping them. Few speak of caste nowadays except novelists, editors, and the very old. What aristocracies we have are clubs or cliques gathered by a community o