And more than this, it had deprived her of an ideal; it had tended to make her take her own performance as the measure of the good and possible.
For, naturally, it was too much to expect that she herself should analyse truly the sources and reasons of her popularity.

She must inevitably believe that some, at least, of it was due to her dramatic talent in itself.

'Perhaps some of it is,' Kendal would answer himself.

'It is very possible that I am not quite fair to her.

She has all the faults which repel me most.