But Mrs. Betty Carver respects tradition, and this, I'm afraid, is ours. - - - She smells like expensive soap and her teeth are shiny-white. She does not in any way look like her name. It's not her fault that she was born in a time when people believed in names like Wanda, Dottie and Betty. She's more of a Vanessa or Paulina.

Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, / And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.

I can't be single and kissless for my whole life. Can I?

blamable: fit to be blamed