She, too, for all her occupation with social reform, was at core a thorough individualist, desiring far less the general good than her own attainment of celebrity as a public benefactress.

Nietzsche spoke to her instincts, as he does to those of a multitude of men and women, hungry for fame, avid of popular applause.

But she, like Lashmar, criticised her philosopher from a moral height.

She did not own to herself the intimacy of his appeal to her.
"He'll do a great deal of harm in the world," she said, this same afternoon, as Dyce and she drank tea together.

"The jingo impulse, and all sorts of forces making for animalism, will get strength from him, directly or indirectly.