"We are living in a changing world and new things are happening.

I do not know what they are, but they shake me inwardly." "You want to see her because-- ?" the Duchess put it to him.
"Perhaps I am changing with the rest of the world, or it may be that instincts which have always been part of me have been shaken to the surface of my being.

Perhaps I was by nature an effusively affectionate and domestic creature.

I cannot say that I have ever observed any signs of the tendency, but it may have lurked secretly within me." "It caused you to rescue a child from torment and watch over its helplessness as if it had been your own flesh and blood," interposed the Duchess.
"It may have been.

Who knows?
And now the unnatural emotional upheaval of the times has broken down all my artificialities.