’ Lady Bicknacre, resplendent in purple satin, and basking in her triumphantly full rooms—for it was obvious that her patronage of the refugees had set a quickly to be followed fashion—was all sorrow and sympathy when Gerald spoke of them. ’ ‘Distract me? She nigh on gave me an apoplexy. Opposite to her was a sallow-visaged young man, whose small tie seemed like a smudge of obtusively shiny black across the front of a high close-drawn collar. “I wonder,” he said, “if women do know things by instinct? I have my doubts about feminine instinct. ‘But that is easy. He hadn't played fair. His invalid wife and her money had been only the thin thread that held his life together; beaded on that permanent relation had been an inter-weaving series of other feminine experiences, disturbing, absorbing, interesting, memorable affairs. Thankfully only the children were home, so there was no one to take active notice that she had been accompanied on her way home from school. The whole affair interested him deeply. “That’s the point. I had done the most compromising things, and behaved in the most ridiculous way. “What have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism, crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline or respect for authority to cover me!” It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct.
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