you will say , perhaps , that there is nothing to prevent me from walking into the card-room if i wish , and appraising such matters for myself , instead of waiting impatiently for a bulletinbut if you say such a thing you will be quite wrong , for i am as firmly banished from those paste-board temples as miss barr , with this difference , that while mrs. smithton only desires to remain undisturbed , my mother wishes to maintain the fiction , 1 ) that her insistence that i accompany her to bath was a wise and excellent decision ; 2 ) that i have made a most favorable impression upon society here , and am spending my days forming friendships with high-ranking persons whose names are neither parry nor merrion ; and 3 ) that despite the fact that she is my mother , there is really no connection between herself and that fashionably-dressed but otherwise insignificant young lady with the limp and the astonishing lack of charm .