CHAPTER XVIII.
The Clash The peculiar personality of Rita Sohlberg was such that by her very action she ordinarily allayed suspicion, or rather distracted it.
Although a novice, she had a strange ease, courage, or balance of soul which kept her whole and self-possessed under the most trying of circumstances.

She might have been overtaken in the most compromising of positions, but her manner would always have indicated ease, a sense of innocence, nothing unusual, for she had no sense of moral degradation in this matter--no troublesome emotion as to what was to flow from a relationship of this kind, no worry as to her own soul, sin, social opinion, or the like.

She was really interested in art and life--a pagan, in fact.

Some people are thus hardily equipped.

It is the most notable attribute of the hardier type of personalities--not necessarily the most brilliant or successful.