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NEXT day, being Sunday, brought to light fresh aspects of the new world in which Phyllys was plunged.
To her the change had come as a veritable plunge, involving such sensations of shock and breathlessness as a dip in the sea will produce. The novelty of it all gripped her imagination. After years of repression, of squeezing in a Procrustean bed, she found herself in an atmosphere of ease and refinement, in a house where beauty was valued, contrasting with the home where only abstract principle was exalted, and things lovely were eschewed as evil. Something of intoxication was the outcome.