She has been, one sees it well, brought up since a young child very strictly.

About some things she has fixed ideas.

If I had told her of these things which are passed away and gone, she might not,"-- and Dare looked gravely at Mr.Alwynn--"she might not think so well of me." This view of the case was quite a new one to Mr.Alwynn.He looked back at Dare with hopeless perplexity in his pained eyes.

To one who throughout life has regarded the supremacy of certain truths and principles of actions as fixed, and recognized as a matter of course by all the world, however imperfectly obeyed by individuals, the discovery comes as a shock, which is at the moment overwhelming, when these same truths and principles are seen to be entirely set aside, and their very existence ignored by others.
Where there is no common ground on which to meet, speech is unavailing and mere waste of time.

It is like shouting to a person at a distance whom it is impossible to approach.