Neville relays a story about a visit to the New York Times society desk roughly a month before Easter, where rows of debutantes and their mothers were being photographed in their Easter finery well in advance — staged pictures later published in the Monday-after-Easter edition as if they were spontaneous shots taken outside St. Patrick's and other churches. He cites this as an example of the social vanity that God takes no notice of, however much it impresses onlookers who value being seen among the wealthy and prominent.