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Selfishness
She had always been selfish when it came to sharing Mr. Knightley's affection, since she was a little girl. He was her Mr. Knightley, she was the first in his affections, and that was all there was to it. Any woman who dared eye him would have to face her wrath.
She hated them all: with their fluttering eyelashes, their way of hanging onto his every word, their infuriatingly pretty faces and womanly figures, their false titters of laughter, their way of petting her and cooing over how 'charming' they thought her, no matter how rude she was to them.
It didn't matter to her if her bluntness sometimes turned Mr. Knightley's eyes to her in stern warning; she did not mind being on the receiving end of his irritation, if only it took his admiring gaze away from whichever woman he was talking to.
And yet today as she saw his eyes directed towards someone else with adoration in their expression, she did not mind. For once she did not mind sharing her place as first in his affections; indeed she would be a hypocrite to begrudge it, since in her heart too her newborn daughter shared pride of place with her husband.