I understood "shame" here as pudor, a strong shared sense of what is right &
proper, Candice, and it was the double-think involved (in what you call
"face-saving") that made me use "equivocation", not any imputed subtlety on
the part of the Franklin, though "naivety" is of course very much a
construction in a double sense. Could you explain the "pun" on "degree",
apart from it meaning "rank"? I'm afraid I missed it.
Martin
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