How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
'I am old and abject and hideous'—she went on as without hearing him. 'Abject above all. Or old above all. It's when one's old that it's worst.' (12.2.20)
It's when she fears losing Chad that Madame de Vionnet is most vocal about her insecurities. And her biggest insecurity seems to be based on the fact that she's almost forty. As she says in these lines, it's even worse to be old than it is to be a bad person. Here, we can definitely sense that Madame de Vionnet's insecurity about her age is connected to her feelings about her younger lover, Chad. Go get 'em, cougar.