The brilliant and unscrupulous, the beautiful and the bad, have a great advantage in this world.

Eglington was curious, that is all.

It is in the breed of the Eglingtons to go exploring, to experiment." Hylda started.

Words from the letter Sybil Lady Eglington had left behind her rushed into her mind: "Experiment, subterfuge, secrecy.
'Reaping where you had not sowed, and gathering where you had not strawed.' Always experiment, experiment, experiment!" "I have only been married three years," she moaned.

"Yes, yes, my darling; but much may happen after three days of married life, and love may come after twenty years.