text:  No young ladies unless the young ladies of the family appear at the dinner-parties of these gentility-mongers; because the motive of the entertainment is pride not pleasure; and therefore prigs and frumps are in keeping and young women with brains or power of conversation would only distract attention from the grand business of life that is to say dinner; besides a seat at table here is an object where the expense is great and nobody is asked for his or her own sake but for an object either of ostentation interest or vanity