Indeed, her sympathies were easily accessible to a man of that sort.

She was not an exploiting capitalist herself; she was, as it were, above the play of economic conditions.

And she had a great capacity of pity for the more obvious forms of common human miseries, precisely because she was such a complete stranger to them that she had to translate her conception into terms of mental suffering before she could grasp the notion of their cruelty.

The Assistant Commissioner remembered very well the conversation between these two.

He had listened in silence.