And the People so far directed by them may boast of healthfulness.

Let the individual shriek, the innocent, triumphant, have in honesty to admit the fact.

One side is vanquished, according to decree of Law, but the superior Council does not allow it to be extinguished.
Diana's battle was fought shadowily behind her for the space of a week or so, with some advocates on behalf of the beaten man; then it became a recollection of a beautiful woman, possibly erring, misvalued by a husband, who was neither a man of the world nor a gracious yokefellow, nor anything to match her.

She, however, once out of the public flames, had to recall her scorchings to be gentle with herself.

Under a defeat, she would have been angrily self-vindicated.