"Why she married Dredlinton is one of the mysteries of the world.

I suppose it was the fatal mistake so many good women make--the reformer's passion.
Dredlinton's rotten to the core, though.

No one could reform him, could even influence him to good to any extent.

He's such a wrong 'un, to tell you the truth, that I'm surprised Phipps put him on the Board.

His name is long past doing any one any good." "Lady Dredlinton did not strike me as having altogether the air of an unhappy woman," Wingate observed tentatively.
Kendrick shrugged his shoulders.
"No fundamentally good woman is ever unhappy," he said, "or rather ever shows it.