social code

By the social code, sin between man and woman can never be blotted out, as assuredly it is the most irreversible of facts.

He was, in every respect, the beau idal of that strange solecism in our social code, "the younger son."

The Oriental social code (if the simple social usages in that part of the world may be termed such) gives man the precedence.

"The social code demands that I shall make his existence happy," she continued.

All friendships between the sexes must, under such a social code, be looked forward to as post-nuptial joys.