It was her instinct to please all at any price, and her obedience to such instinct was often unconscious.

She hardly knew perhaps that she was trading upon a sense of chivalry rare in these days, but had she known she could not have traded with a keener comprehension of the commerce.
"I should like to forget the past altogether," she said.

"But it is hard for women to get rid of the past.

It is rather terrible to feel that one will be associated all one's life with a person for whom no one had any respect.

He was not honorable or--" She paused; for the intuition of some women is marvellous.