You can set yourself about the business you have taken in hand and can work hard at it.

What can a girl do ?" "Girls work hard too sometimes." "Of course they do;--but everybody feels that they are sinning against their sex.

Of love, such as a man's is, a woman ought to know nothing.

How can she love with passion when she should never give her love till it has been asked, and not then unless her friends tell her that the thing is suitable?
Love such as that to me is out of the question.

But, as it is fit that I should be married, I wish to be married well." "And you will love him after a fashion ?" "Yes;--after a very sterling fashion.