His lordship was as one who had a place on a sort of altar.
"It's because he's so high in his way that he can bear it," was her thought.

"He's so high that nothing upsets him.

He's above things--that's what he is." And there was something else too--something she did not quite follow but felt vaguely moved by.

What was happening to England came into it--and something else that was connected with himself in some way that was his own affair.

In his long talk with her he had said some strange things--though all in his own way.
"Howsoever the tide of war turns, men and women will be needed as the world never needed them before," was one of them.