No question of other people's rights and privileges ever seemed to enter
his head. Splendidly unmoral, he had gone through life driving straight
ahead for whatever he wanted, without a back thought as to whether it might
be right or wrong. That aspect of the matter simply did not enter into his
calculations. And because there was still a great deal of the "little boy"
in him--that "little boy" who never seems to grow up in some men--women had
always found excuses and forgiveness for him, and probably always would.
Even Ann could not feel as offended at his audacity as she would like to
have done. There was something disarming in the very fact that he never
seemed to expect you to feel offended. And though, on that first afternoon
she had been allowed downstairs, he had shaken her nerve somewhat, she
was inclined to attribute this to the circumstance that she was still
physically a little weak--not quite her usual buoyant self. The impression
of sheer dynamic force which he had left with her was very vivid, and might
have lingered with her longer, troubling her peace of mind, but for an
unexpected happening which served to direct her thoughts into another
channel.
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