If you did not do these things, so much the worse for you when the working class came to its own; if you did do them, the burden of debt was hardly diminished, and the rope was still left on your neck.
Now Marcella herself had on one or two occasions taken a malicious pleasure in flaunting these doctrines, or some of them, under Miss Raeburn's eyes.

But somehow, as applied to herself, they were disagreeable.

Each of us is to himself a "special case"; and she saw the other side.

Hence a constant soreness of feeling; a constant recalling of the argument to the personal point of view; and through it all a curious growth of intimacy, a rubbing away of barriers.

She had felt herself of no account before, intellectually, in Aldous's company, as we know.