Sacrifice

People who, like the Duke of Windsor and others who turn up in magazines, those who have made great sacrifices (even when their actions have only borrowed that name) must be sure to keep what they have done "of value," and so they repeat -- or permit the repetition -- of their story even when it is more old than valued. It is a defining even this sacrifice, and so it must always have been a wonderful trade. It has always to be worth what might instead have been.