Confessions of a Well-Meaning Woman
She would never have done for Will. . . As you would be the first to agree, if you had seen her. Oh, I can’t describe my relief that nothing came of that. The difference of blood and breeding—Roman Catholic and Anglican, Latin and Anglo-Saxon. . .
But I feel that the poor woman would have been given a fairer chance if her own people at the Legation had been able to tell us something about her. If they can’t do that, I really don’t know what they are there for or why one takes the trouble to invite them to one’s house. . .
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