When she returned at the end of a week she was full of new gravity.
After a while this so far changed that her old lighter moods began to
have their place, but it seemed that she never lost, and that she
never would lose, the effect of that week of bitter experience
amongst the 'submerged tenth.'

The effect of the mental working was shown by a remark made by Harold
when home on his next college vacation. He had been entering with
her on a discussion of an episode on the estate:

'Stephen, you are learning to be just!'

At the moment she was chagrined by the remark, though she accepted it
in silence; but later, when she had thought the matter over, she took
from it infinite pleasure. This was indeed to share man's ideas and
to think with the workings of man's mind. It encouraged her to
further and larger ideas, and to a greater toleration than she had
hitherto dreamed of.

Of all those who loved her, none seemed to understand so fully as
Laetitia Rowly the change in her mental attitude, or rather the
development of it. Now and again she tried to deflect or modify
certain coming forces, so that the educational process in which she
had always had a part would continue in the right direction. But she
generally found that the girl had been over the ground so thoroughly
that she was able to defend her position. Once, when she had
ventured to remonstrate with her regarding her attitude of woman's
equality with man, she felt as if Stephen's barque was indeed
entering on dangerous seas. The occasion had arisen thus: Stephen
had been what her aunt had stigmatised as 'laying down the law' with