Ideas might have changed, but _they_ had not.
Since the last time they had curtsied to the beloved late Queen, in about 1879, she believed new rules had been made, but the La Sarthe had nothing to do with such things! Halcyone caught Miss Roberta's piteous, subdued eye, and smiled a tender, kind smile.

With years her understanding of her ancient aunts had grown.

They were no longer rather contemptible, narrow-minded elders in her eyes, but filled her with a pitiful and gentle respect.

Their courage under adversity, their firm self-control, and the force which made them live up to their idea of the fitness of things, appealed to her strongly.

She had John Derringham's quality of detached consideration, and appreciated her old relatives as exquisite relics of the past, as well as her own kith and kin.
"In America, divorce is not considered the heinous crime it was once in England," Mr.Carlyon said.