Billy thought privately that the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were. Sometimes she wondered why people bothered. Yet, there it was, that slight self-consciousness, the faint over-consideration, that eagerness to charm . . .
Source: In The New Quotable Woman, by Elaine Partnow, 1992.
-- Judith Krantz, (Jan 9 1928-2019), US novelist; She wrote Scruples, 1978, Princess Daisy, 1980 and Minstral's Daughter, 1982.