They are looking forward to Easters and Junes and summers, and I am not.

I also have a fatuous feeling of superiority in being in closer touch than they with eternal verities.

I must take care that I do not play too much to the gallery, that I do not grow too conceited over the singularity of my situation, and arrive at the mental attitude of the criminal whose dominant solicitude in connection with his execution was that he should be hanged in his dress clothes.

These reflections brought me to Eccleston Square.
Lady Kynnersley is that type of British matron who has children in fits of absent-mindedness, and to whom their existence is a perpetual shock.

Her main idea in marrying the late Sir Thomas Kynnersley was to associate herself with his political and philanthropic schemes.