For a moment Meg was shocked. Isabel had, indeed, played the part of a loyal wife in all this; but had her loyalty rested on no securer foundation than diffidence - on sheer, silly incompetence?
But it was wrong to be shocked. Who has ever been able to analyse the motives, good and bad, heroic and ludicrous, which add up to such qualities as loyalty and courage? Isn't it enough that they do add up?
C. Fremlin, Uncle Paul (1959), 211
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