"Now if we were truly humane we would modify our desires to meet their needs and end this sickening search, wouldn't we ?" "Yes, but we're not truly humane," his wife answered, "or at least not in that sense.

You know you hate boarding; and if we went there I should have them on my sympathies the whole time." "I see.

And then you would take it out of me." "Then I should take it out of you.

And if you are going to be so weak, Basil, and let every little thing work upon you in that way, you'd better not come to New York.

You'll see enough misery here." "Well, don't take that superior tone with me, as if I were a child that had its mind set on an undesirable toy, Isabel." "Ah, don't you suppose it's because you are such a child in some respects that I like you, dear ?" she demanded, without relenting.
"But I don't find so much misery in New York.