They are good people, these social confessors, though they seldom give much advice.

Nevertheless, it is such a help to tell one's story and hear how it sounds! Lady Victoria was not a woman of surpassing intellect; perhaps she had no intellect at all.

She belonged to the confessors above referred to.
She was the soul of honour, of faith, and of secrecy.

People were always making confidences to her, and they always felt the better for it--though she herself could not imagine why.

And so even Margaret came and told her troubles.