"The want of discrimination in the human mind. I dare say that even
yours is tainted! It's of no use to pretend you can't understand. In
a moment of self-denying effusiveness I admitted that I deliberately
angled for a husband: first for Mark Driver, then for Colonel
Faversham. Well, although one would have none of me and I didn't want
the other, the fact remains that I am the wife of the richest of the
trio! Everybody who knows Jimmy naturally thinks that was all I
thought about--his money, his position and so forth. Well, there's
only one consolation," said Bridget.
"What is that?" demanded Carrissima.
"Jimmy knows better. I can't tell you how, but there's the glorious
fact that he does. All the evidence was against me! I suppose Jimmy
is a kind of seer--oh, of course you can't help smiling at that! But,
then, neither you nor any one else has the slightest idea what there is
in Jimmy. Carrissima, my husband is a clever man who has the
misfortune--if it is really a misfortune--to see both sides of every
question too distinctly! Being a poor partisan, he appears to lack
enthusiasm.
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