I was about to say, Sydney, that it has been my good fortune to be intimately associated, in early life, with two remarkable characters.

Husbands of mine, in short, whose influence over me has, I am proud to say, set death and burial at defiance.

Between them they have made my mind the mind of a man.

I judge for myself.

The opinions of others (when they don't happen to agree with mine) I regard as chaff to be scattered to the winds.