“She didn’t exactly say. But I’m afraid she meant from a strict moral code.”
“Oh, Lord!” said Craven, thinking of Lady Wrackley’s smile.
“Why do you say that?”
“Please—never mind! So Lady Wrackley thinks that Lady Sellingworth considered the loss of her jewels such a fitting punishment for her many lapses from a strict moral code that she never tried to get them back?”
“Apparently. She said that Addie—she called her Addie then—that Addie bowed her head.”
“Not beneath the rod! Don’t tell me she used the word rod!”
“But she did!”
“Priceless!”
“Wasn’t it? But women are like that when they belong to the ‘old guard.’ Do you think she can be right?”
“If it is so, Lady Sellingworth must be a very unusual sort of woman.”