But her literary life, and her literary successes, her flirtations with Mr. Broune, her business with Mr. Booker, and her crushing by Mr. Alf's Mr. Jones, were after all but adjuncts to that real inner life of hers of which the absorbing interest was her son. 
But her literary life and successes were only adjuncts to her real inner life, of which the absorbing interest was her son. 