Miss Hallard is a woman last of all.

How these two, in their blatant contrasts, were brought together, is an example of one of those mysterious forces in the great machinery of life which we are unable to comprehend.

It is like the harnessing of electricity to the needs of civilization.

We can make it do what we will; but of what it is, we know nothing.

So we are just as ignorant of that law which governs the contact of personalities.