Our Mutual Friend Book 4 Chapter 17 - The Voice of Society

In which we are invited to a bustling social gathering where the esteemed and the ordinary alike converge to discuss, with much vehemence and prejudice, the propriety of a certain unconventional matrimonial alliance, offering a mirror to the mores and whispers that govern their world. Through the lively debates and the sharp exchanges of this assembly, the delicate, often unspoken, distinctions of society are delicately and revealingly unfolded.