Excessive luxury decorated temples or fake certificates, fake trophy decorated office , with too much false enthusiasm for students to please, to hide their incompetence.
There were many things she kept from her mother these days. But, most of all, she kept secret the fact that Rhett Butler called frequently at Aunt Pittypat's house.
And that idea of "sisterly love" allows female lovers to stay under the radar, even more easily than in the West - until they reach the age of marriage.