Though I'm not.
I really might _do_ something." She reflected in silence for a minute.
Then she said: "I'm afraid right down in my heart that Alfred Perrot _won't_ do.

He's not strong, is he ?" "Perhaps he couldn't cut down a tree," said Hewet.

"Have you never cared for anybody ?" he asked.
"I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them," she said.

"I suppose I'm too fastidious.

All my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid.