Excerpt from A Woman Ventures: "Don't be offended, child, said Mrs. Ainslie, replying to Emily's haughty coldness. You ought to thank me. I only hope you will never regret it. A girl without a dot can't afford to trifle. A second season is dangerous, especially here in Washington, where they bring the babies out of the nursery to marry them off."
David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.