For Sibyl Sheridan belonged to a type Scriptural in its antiquity.

She was merely the idle and half-educated intriguer who may and does delude men, of course, and the best and dullest of her own sex as well, finding invariably strong supporters among these latter.

It is a type that has wrought some damage in the world and would have wrought greater, save for the check put upon its power by intelligent women and by its own "lack of perspective," for it is a type that never sees itself.

Sibyl followed her impulses with no reflection or question--it was like a hound on the gallop after a master on horseback.

She had not even the instinct to stop and consider her effect.