Being an intelligent girl, she knew, of course, that people did, and occasionally preachers occupied the pulpit of St.John's who were apparently quite anxious that she and the rest of the congregation should understand that it meant this and not that, or that and not this, according to the particular enthusiasm of the clergyman of the moment.

Sentence by sentence she more or less understood what these gentlemen keenly urged upon her; as a whole she understood nothing.

She was far too much the child of her environment and age not to perceive that Mr.Lloyd George's experiments in class legislation were vastly more important.
Peter, therefore, had always been a bit of an enigma to her.

As a rule he fitted in with the scheme of things perfectly well, for he was a gentleman, he liked nice things, and he was splendidly keen on charity organisation and the reform of abuses on right lines.

But now and again he said and did things which perturbed her.