The Sphinx mouth of the married woman at war and at bay must be left unriddled.

She and the law differed in their interpretation of the dues of wedlock.
But matters referring to her case were secondary with Diana beside the importance of her storing impressions.

Her mind required to hunger for something, and this Reality which frequently she was forced to loathe, she forced herself proudly to accept, despite her youthfulness.

Her philosophy swallowed it in the lump, as the great serpent his meal; she hoped to digest it sleeping likewise.

Her visits of curiosity to the Law Courts, where she stood spying and listening behind a veil, gave her a great deal of tough substance to digest.