For a long time, my father had thought it impossible for us to visit Mrs and Miss Swan because I had no idea of social status, and I imagined that they were too far away from us, which added to their prestige in my mind. I regretted that my mother did not dye her hair and put on her lipstick like Madame Swan, for I had heard from our neighbor, Madame Salazar, that Madame Swan did not do so to...