"What's really 'superior' in her is that, though I suddenly show her an interference with a favourite plan, her personal resentment's nothing--all she wants is to see what may really happen, to take in the truth of the case and make the best of that.

She offers me the truth, as she sees it, about myself, and with no nasty elation if it does chance to be the truth that suits her best.

It was a charming, charming stroke." Mitchy's appreciation was no bar to his amusement.

"You're wonderfully right about us.

But still it was a stroke." If Mrs.Brook was less diverted she followed perhaps more closely.