We are the biggest and richest white community in Shanghai: therefore, we should and do carry no little weight here asa community: every action, good or bad, upholds or lessens what prestige we have, Every single member of the British Women's Association has a very definite responsibility—one that she can never lay aside, wherever she may be, whatever she may be doing—she represents British Womanhood. We are democrats—therefore we cannot Pretend it doesn't matter what we do. In a democracy, everyone counts, We British pride ourselves on being straight, sporting, sincere. A twisted story, spoken behind someone's back, is not straight, It is not sporting ever to treat someone with discourtesy, merely because we can do so with apparent immunity. It ix not sincere to pretend to be what we are not: many of us like to affect airs or to live in a style which we would not dare to attempt at home, and to whith only our bankers know we are in no way entitled. As I said, one looks for simplicity and grace in British women; simplicity—natural and unaffected in outlook and in conduct, Grace—a bearing beftting that of a British woman,
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