But now polite society (if you want to call it that) seems to be taking a stand.
The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.
"I am surprised that he is received in polite society, then."
No one in polite society ever did more than press fingers.
Most of the stories were not fit for polite society.
An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
It's just so seldom one gets a chance to do anything really major in polite society.
Religion isn't the kind of thing you discuss in polite society, back home.
To never quite fit into polite society no matter what you do?
But then again, it hadn't been designed for a woman of polite society.