"The first wound was bad--but from that one always comes round.

Your mother, dear woman, had known how to help me.

Lady Julia was at that time her intimate friend--it was she who introduced me there.

She couldn't help what happened--she did her best.

What I meant just now was that in the aftertime, when opportunity occurred, she was the one person with whom I could always talk and who always understood." He lost himself an instant in the deep memories to attest which he had survived alone; then he sighed out as if the taste of it all came back to him with a faint sweetness: "I think they must both have been good to me.