Yet I placed her in every conceivable position and she managed to obliterate their differences.

She was always a lady certainly, and into the bargain was always the same lady.

She was the real thing, but always the same thing.

There were moments when I rather writhed under the serenity of her confidence that she WAS the real thing.

All her dealings with me and all her husband's were an implication that this was lucky for ME.