A nervous woman's desire to get her own way--and strained rebellion at not getting her own way--bedazzles or befogs her brain so that her nerves twist off into all sorts of emotions which have nothing whatever to do with the main cause.

The woman with the troublesome relative wants to be considered good and kind and generous.

The woman with the nervous money conscience wants to be considered upright and just in her dealings with others.

All women with various expressions of nervous conscience want to ease their consciences for the sake of their own comfort--not in the least for the sake of doing right.
I write first of the nervous hypocrite because in her case the nervous strain is deeper in and more difficult to find.

To watch such a woman is like seeing her in a terrible nightmare, which she steadily "sugar-coats" by her complacent belief in her own goodness.