Then, "Goodness only knows," he said.

"Goodness, and themselves.

I suppose they found it out too late.

That is one of the little risks of life." She answered nothing.
"Do you think," he went on, "that there will be a special Hell in the Hereafter for parents who have sacrificed their children's lives to their own ambition?
I hope there will be." "I have never given the matter the consideration it deserves," she answered.

"Was that the reason?
Is Lady Cantourne a more important person than Lady Meredith ?" "Yes." She gave a little nod of comprehension, as if he had raised a curtain for her to see into his life--into the far perspective of it, reaching back into the dim distance of fifty years before.