Their affection was always to subside into friendship.

Every thing tender and charming was to mark their parting; but still they were to part.

When she became sensible of this, it struck her that she could not be very much in love; for in spite of her previous and fixed determination never to quit her father, never to marry, a strong attachment certainly must produce more of a struggle than she could foresee in her own feelings.
"I do not find myself making any use of the word _sacrifice_," said she.--"In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

So much the better.