May I ask you a question? Dying for the sake of honor is something an idiot does, isn't it?
I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation.
You're living in the past it's a new generation
A girl can do what she wants to do and that's
What i'm gonna do
An' I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation.
For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's a morality car wash. It does for us what Lourdes does for humpbacks and cripples.
— You know her husband well.
— Not at all well, but his reputation precedes him.
Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself.
Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: — that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable, that one false step involves her in endless ruin, that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful, and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
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