As she put it herself: "I wanted always to look my best, and always to be very good." Good in the essentials of life, that is to be understood.

She had lived in a lax world.

She was not particularly troubled by the character of her associates; she was untouched by them; she liked her fling at the baccarat-tables.

These were details, and did not distress her.

Love had not turned her into a Puritan.