The only sympathy she had was from these, and the only power she possessed was over them, and through them.

The aim of her life was to fascinate them; the art of her life was to keep them fascinated without the conscious degradation of herself, and, so, to lead them whithersoever she would.
Her business was the manufacture of slaves--slaves to her personal charms and her imperious will.

Each slave carried around his own secret, treated her with distant deference in society, spoke of her with respect, and congratulated himself on possessing her supreme favor.

Not one of them had her heart, or her confidence.

With a true woman's instinct, she knew that no man who would be untrue to his wife would be true to her.