In regard to her affair with Lynde, aside from the temporary relief and diversion it had afforded her, she was beginning to feel that she had made a serious mistake.

Lynde was delightful, after his fashion.

He could amuse her with a different type of experience from any that Cowperwood had to relate.

Once they were intimate he had, with an easy, genial air, confessed to all sorts of liaisons in Europe and America.

He was utterly pagan--a faun--and at the same time he was truly of the smart world.