He had been entering with her on a discussion of an episode on the estate: 'Stephen, you are learning to be just!' At the moment she was chagrined by the remark, though she accepted it in silence; but later, when she had thought the matter over, she took from it infinite pleasure.

This was indeed to share man's ideas and to think with the workings of man's mind.

It encouraged her to further and larger ideas, and to a greater toleration than she had hitherto dreamed of.
Of all those who loved her, none seemed to understand so fully as Laetitia Rowly the change in her mental attitude, or rather the development of it.

Now and again she tried to deflect or modify certain coming forces, so that the educational process in which she had always had a part would continue in the right direction.

But she generally found that the girl had been over the ground so thoroughly that she was able to defend her position.