She had a temperament which might have made her an adventuress--or an opera-singer.

She had been touched in time, and she had never looked back.
"You are with Lady Eglington now, I have heard ?" he asked.
She nodded.
"It was hard for you in London at first ?" She met his look steadily.

"It was easy in a way.

I could see round me what was the right thing to do.

Oh, that was what was so awful in the old life over there at Heddington,"-- she pointed beyond the hill, "we didn't know what was good and what was bad.