so there was scotland in the summer and skiing in the winter and spring-all over europe , in switzerland , austria , italy-and we stuck to each other through the finishing school and at the end we even `` came out '' together , and aunt florence produced five hundred pounds as my contribution to an idiotic joint dance at the hyde park hotel , and i got on the same `` list '' and went the rounds of similar idiotic dances at which the young men seemed to me rude and spotty and totally unmasculine compared with the young canadians i had known .