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Updated: May 7, 2025
"I think you must go now, Allan," she said, looking at him with that pseudo-maternal air which the youngest of women sometimes assume to their lovers, as if the doll had suddenly changed sex, and grown to man's estate. "You must go now, dear; for it may so chance that father is considering my absence overmuch.
Her calm appropriation of the position which she had secured, and, above all, the pseudo-maternal way in which she spoke of Enid, irritated Hubert almost beyond endurance. He went back to London on the following day, promising to return to Beechfield Hall before long. For some reason or other he felt eager to get away the air of the place seemed to excite his sensibilities unduly, he told himself.
It simply magnified her existing qualities. She was like a dried sponge put in water: she expanded, but she did not change her shape. From the stand-point of scientific observation it was curious to see how her stored instincts responded to the pseudo-maternal call. She overflowed with the petty maxims of the occasion.
She stayed at home, the Queen of Langley, where no oppressive pseudo-maternal atmosphere interfered with her perfect freedom. But in the October following the death of her mother, a thunderbolt fell at Constance's feet, which eventually drove her to Cardiff. The Duke was from home, and, as everybody supposed, at Court.
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