And why was she in tears?
What had brought this amazing thing to pass?
What right had she to cry?
They watched her stupidly as she walked away from them toward the window.
They were not unfeeling; they simply did not know how to act in the face of this marvel.

They looked at each other in bewilderment.

What had happened?
Only the moment before she had been as cold and as magnificently composed as ever she had been, and now! Now she was like other people.

She had come down to the level of the utterly commonplace.

She was just a plain, ordinary woman.