This sounded just like a version of "Let them eat cake."
People standing on high ground can never understand why ordinary people would even care about the reflection on the floor.
Cora Lowell obviously caught on as well, her lips curled up slightly, and she sneered a few times.
Clara Jennings' face turned red and then white, then pale again.
She wished she could find a hole to crawl into and never come out again.
But then she heard that laughter.
Her first reaction was that she was being ridiculed.
She jerked her head around, glaring fiercely at Cora Lowell.
"What's so funny! What's so hilarious! Stop pretending to be so aloof!"
Her voice rose, so sharp it almost broke.
