They probably accepted him as London society of the present day accepts a theosophist from Simla or Thibet.

But his real home at this epoch, the only home, so far as I can see, that Bruno ever had, after he left his mother at the age of thirteen for a convent, was the house of Castelnau.

The truest chords in the Italian's voice vibrate when he speaks of that sound Frenchman.
To Mme.

de Castelnau he alludes with respectful sincerity, paying her the moderate and well-weighed homage which, for a noble woman, is the finest praise.

There is no rhetoric in the words he uses to express his sense of obligation to her kindness.