That the existence of this feeling has strong effect in saving women from passing the line, none of us can doubt.

That its general tendency may be good rather than evil, is possible.

But the hardness necessary to preserve the rule, a hardness which must be exclusively feminine but which is seldom wanting, is a marvellous feature in the female character.

Lady Mary Quin probably thought but little on the subject.

The women in the cottage on the cliff, who were befriended by Father Marty, were to her dangerous scheming Roman Catholic adventurers.