Let me be independent! Besides, I begin to learn something of the bigger world outside the one I know, and I crush my mincing tastes.

In return for that, I get a sense of strength I had not when I was a drawing-room exotic.

Much is repulsive.

But I am taken with a passion for reality.' They spoke of the lawyers, and the calculated period of the trial; of the husband too, in his inciting belief in the falseness of his wife.
'That is his excuse,' Diana said, her closed mouth meditatively dimpling the comers over thoughts of his grounds for fury.

He had them, though none for the incriminating charge.