"Since it became fashionable to boast a Paris divorce, the Ritz ladies' room has been headquarters for the Alimony Sisterhood, who meet there and compare notes about past and future husbands, lawyers' fees, their dearest friends and the increasing popularity of pearl necklaces. Some of the veteran alimony leaguers seem perpetually in a state of expectancy—of divorces or new husbands. There are ladies making the Ritz bar a nightly ceremony who are at their fourth husband and who won't admit to thirty years of age."