In one regard it showed itself strikingly--the contempt for their own sex which was natural to both.
As a mere consequence of her birth, Arabella Tomalin had despised and distrusted womanhood; the sentiment is all but universal in low-born girls.

Advancing in civilisation, she retained this instinct, and confirmed the habit of mind by results of her experience; having always sought for meanness and incapacity in the female world, she naturally had found a great deal of it.

By another way, Constance Bride had arrived at very much the same results; she made no friends among women, and desired none.

Lady Ogram and she agreed in their disdain for all "woman" movements; what progress they aimed at concerned the race at large, with merely a slighting glance towards the special circumstances of its sex-burdened moiety.

Moreover, the time-worn woman perceived in her young associate a personal ambition which she read by the light of her own past.