It was a deep, calm, convinced infatuation.

She had not only felt him to be inoffensive, but she had said so, which last by a confusion of her absolutist mind became a sort of incontrovertible demonstration.

It was as if the monstrosity of the man, with his candid infant's eyes and a fat angelic smile, had fascinated her.

She had come to believe almost his theory of the future, since it was not repugnant to her prejudices.

She disliked the new element of plutocracy in the social compound, and industrialism as a method of human development appeared to her singularly repulsive in its mechanical and unfeeling character.