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Mrs. Cannon, when she would have been justified in addressing it,
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Miss Lessways. In the days of her boarding-house it had been impossible, owing to business reasons, for Hilda to drop the name to which she was not entitled and to revert to her own. The authentic Mrs. Cannon, despite the violence of her grievances, had respected Hilda’s difficulty; the act showed kindly forbearance and it had aroused Hilda’s imaginative gratitude. Further, Mrs. Cannon’s pertinacity in the liberation proceedings, and her calm, logical acceptance of all the frightful consequences of being the legal wife of a convict, had little by little impressed Hilda, who had said to herself:
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There is something in this old woman. And Hilda nowadays never thought of her as an old woman who had been perverse and shameless in desire, but as a victim of passion like George Cannon. She said to herself:
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This old woman still loves George Cannon; her love was the secret of her rancour against him, and it is also the secret of her compassion.