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Because the thing that he had meant to do seemed foul when he looked on her honourably held little head and her straight blue smock, he began to tamper with reality, so that he might believe himself not to have incurred the guilt of that intention. Surely it had been she that had planned that thing, not he? Girls were nasty-minded and were always thinking about men.
"She must be deuced nasty-minded herself, you know, or she wouldn't have known Finchley had a woman out with him," said Major Livingston, whom Mrs. Guthrie Brimston called "Lady Betty" because of his nice precise little ways with ladies. "Oh, trust a prude!" said Captain Brown. "They spy out all the beastliness that's going."
Humanity will lose no real sanctity or safeguard by her demise; only false shame and false morality will go but true modesty, "the modesty of nature," true propriety, true religion and incidentally true love and true marriage will all be immeasurably the gainers by the death of this hypocritical, nasty-minded old lady.
"We're attending to man the iniquitous now," she called to them kindly to relieve their minds. "He's been too much for you, it seems, but we'll soon settle him." "You're a nasty-minded woman," said the pope. "Always abusive, old candles and vestments," Angelica retorted. "Candles and vestments in excess" said the Archbishop of York hurriedly. "Where?" And he went off to see about them.
Every night as she combed out my hair she gave me her opinion of my attitude towards Alma, and one night she said: "Didn't I tell you she was only watching you, my lady? The nasty-minded thing is making mischief with his lordship. She's writing to him every day. . . . How do I know? Oh, I don't keep my eyes and my ears open downstairs for nothing.
He said heartily, "I should just call that a nasty-minded remark from somebody who didn't know what he was talking about. And let it go at that." "There, you see," she told him, "that rouses your instinct to resist, to fight back. But it doesn't mine. It just makes me sick." "Marise, I'm afraid that you have to fight for what you want to keep in this world. I don't see any way out of it.
The tension had become too great, that was all. Her self-control, slackened by the momentarily held belief that it was not needed, had snapped. "I understand well enough," she said. "You would say good night at my bedroom door and good morning at the breakfast table. I've read of arrangements like that in rather nasty-minded novels, but I didn't suppose they existed anywhere else.
It was not so often since the war that she saw her own face lighted with mirth. Gravely, something deep on the edge of the unconscious called up to her, "You are talking and feeling like a coquette." She was indignant at this, up in arms to defend human freedom. "Oh, what a hateful, little-villagey, prudish, nasty-minded idea!" she cried to herself.
Beth asked. "By poking their noses into things that don't concern them," he asseverated, "things they wouldn't know anything about if they weren't damned nasty-minded. There's that fanatical Lady Fulda Guthrie, and Mrs. Orton Beg, and Mrs. Kilroy, besides Madam Ideala they're all busybodies, and if they succeed in what they're at just now, by Jove, they'll ruin me!
Guthrie Brimston was a nasty-minded woman, of extremely coarse conversation, and, without compromising herself, she was a fecund source of corruption in others. No younger woman of undecided character could come under her influence without being tainted in mind if not in manners. She delighted in objectionable stories, and her husband fed her fancy from the clubs liberally.
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