The passion of her life was spent on him.

To do him justice, he had never failed to display to her the most tender affection.

In her eyes he was perfection.

His death would mean the wiping out of everything between Earth and Heaven.

And yet, paramount in her envisagement of such a tragedy was the idea of a public proclamation of the cause of England in which he died.
In this war the women of England--the women of Great Britain and Ireland--the women of the far-flung regions of the British Empire, have their part.
Now and then mild business matters call me up to London.