“Just what I thought. She said a moral revolution had taken place in Lady Sellingworth after the jewels were stolen.”
“That sounds almost too tumultuous to be comfortable.”
“Like ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ happening in one’s interior.”
“And what did she attribute such a phenomenon to?”
“Well, she took almost a clerical view of the matter.”
“How very unexpected!”
“She said she believed that Adela—she called her Adela—that Adela took the loss of her jewels as a punishment for her sins.”
“Do you mean to say she used the word sins?”
“No; she said ‘many lapses.’ But that’s what she meant.”
“Lapses from what?”