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CHAPTER 36 PALLAS
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Not even her intimates knew the nature of the humiliations and the sufferings that had created Mrs. Falconer’s attitude towards man.
She was a tall and rather silent woman, fair-haired, grey-eyed, with a face that was young in outline and old in its white reserve. There was nothing slipshod or casual about her. She dressed with discrimination, yet even in the wearing of her clothes she suggested the putting on of armour1, the linking up of chain mail. Someone had nicknamed her “Pallas.” She moved finely, stood still finely, and spoke2 in a level, full-toned voice that had a peculiar3 knack4 of dominating the conversation without effort and without self-consciousness. People turned and looked at her directly she entered a room.
Yet Mrs. Falconer did not play to her public. It was not the case of a superlatively clever woman conducting an ambitious campaign. There was something behind her cold serenity5, a silent forcefulness, a superior vitality6 that made people turn to her, watch her, listen to what she said. She suggested the instinctive7 thought, “This woman has suffered; this woman knows; she is implacable; can keep a secret.” And all of us are a little afraid of the silent people who can keep secrets, who watch us, who listen while we babble8, and who, with one swift sentence, send an arrow straight to the heart of things while we have been shooting all over the target.
Sentimentalists might have said that Mrs. Falconer was a splendid white rose without any perfume. Whether the emotions had been killed in her, whether she had ever possessed9 them, or whether she
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