Derena Moments (#5): Serena:So pick me up at eight? Dan: You really go out with some guy you don’t know? Serena:Well, you can’t be worse than the guys I do know.
He enjoyed spectacular effects, and was not insensible to the part money plays in their production: all he asked was that the very rich should live up to their calling as stage-managers, and not spend their money in a dull way.