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`` I have not changed my first opinion , '' he said , as he released her fingers and turned quickly down the pavement . Grant 's first visit to the home of his private stenographer was not his last , and the news leaked out , as it is sure to do in such cases . The social set confessed to being on the point of being shocked . Two schools of criticism developed over the five o'clock tea tables ; one held that Grant was a gay dog who would settle down and marry in his class when he had had his fling , and the other that Phyllis Bruce was an artful hussy who was quite ready to sell herself for the Grant millions . And there were so many eligible young women on the market , although none of them were described as artful hussies ! Grant 's behavior , however , placed him under no cloud in so far as social opportunities were concerned ; on the contrary , he found himself being showered with invitations , most of which he managed to decline on the grounds of pressure of business . When such an excuse would have been too transparent he accepted and made the best of it , and he found no lack of encouragement in the one or two incipient amorous flurries which resulted .