I told her so immediately after I met her, and she took me at my word, as I meant her to do.

But she avoids Goodwood week and festivals generally, and she is wise.

For though I would take her anywhere myself, you know what long memories people have for other people's sins.

There might be humiliations." "I understand that," said Hillyard, and he added, "I gathered from Mrs.
Croyle that you had remained a very staunch friend." Millie Splay shrugged her shoulders.
"I am a middle-aged woman with a middle-aged woman's comprehension.
There are heaps of things I loathe more and more each day, meanness, for instance, and an evil tongue.

But, for the other sins, more and more I see the case for compassion.