steadiest-minded

Updated: July 28, 2025

I had never been able to make that particular act which could hardly, in the light of her subsequent conduct, be dismissed as a blind surge of passion square with my conception of her character. She was at once the most spontaneous and the steadiest-minded woman I had ever known, and the last to wish to owe any advantage to surprise, to unpreparedness, to any play on the spring of sex.

Edith Wharton - The Long Run: 1916