And when she could not comprehend she would deceive herself that she did: which amounts to the equivalent.
She was a living proof that in her sex social distinctions do not effectively count.

Nothing counted where she was concerned, except a distinction far more profound than any social distinction--the historic distinction between Adam and Eve.

She was balm to Priam Farll.

She might have been equally balm to King David, Uriah the Hittite, Socrates, Rousseau, Lord Byron, Heine, or Charlie Peace.

She would have understood them all.