Society in Argentina was strait-laced and extremely narrow in some aspects.
Argentines rather like the English, believed that the structure of Society rested on the preservation of respectability.
What was more, Argentines of all classes believed in the ideal of purity, incorruptibility and honourable conduct.
This was all based on a social code that as far as a family was concerned was both narrow and bigoted.
It would have been impossible, Cañuela knew, even for Mrs. Arlington with all her kindness, understanding and sympathy, to have invited one of her husband’s secretaries to luncheon to meet her women friends.
It would have been just as impossible for any Argentine hostess to acknowledge or even meet Cañuela as she was Ramón de Lopez’s secretary and had travelled unchaperoned wit
