Grimshaw answered her.
“I am not against you, Lady Selina. You belong to the old order. I belong to the new. I have never indicted your sincerity of purpose. I hope you won’t indict mine.”
She shrugged her shoulders, saying with finality:
“I stick to my order. I can’t change. We don’t change.”
He came nearer.
“But—your son changed.”
“What——?”
Obviously, she considered herself challenged, and unfairly challenged. She sat up. Her eyes sparkled. She spoke with intensity:
“He did not change. My boy stood by me always—always.”
“He changed after he had faced—realities.”