She was a generous woman, and did not convict him, as she would have done another man, of blatant vulgarity.

Yet she felt preposterously pained.

Why could not this great, single-minded creature, with ideas as high as they were queer, perceive the board's rank abomination?
"It's unworthy of you," she said bravely.

"I want everyone to respect you as I do.

You see the Cure isn't everything.