But I wish they would be quick and communicate with us.
"One reconciles one's self to the inevitable, and, for my own part, the result of my own reflections is that I am something more than acquiescent.

After all, granted that these two must make choice of each other, was it not in the fitness of things that they should act as they have done?
For us comfortable folk, life is too humdrum; ought we not to be grateful to those who supply us with a strong emotion, and who remind us that there is yet poetry in the world?
I should apologize for addressing such thoughts to _you_, dear Eleanor, for you have still the blessing of a young heart, and certainly do not lack poetry.

I speak for myself, and after all I am much disposed to praise these young people for their unconventional behaviour.
"What if our darkest anticipations were fulfilled?
Beyond all doubt they are now sincerely devoted to each other, and will remain so for at least twelve months.

Those twelve months will be worth a life-time of level satisfaction.

We shall be poor creatures in comparison when we utter our 'Didn't I tell you so ?' "Whilst in a confessing mood, I will admit that I had formed rather a different idea of Cecily; I was disposed to think of her as the modern woman who has put unreasoning passion under her feet, and therefore this revelation was at first a little annoying to me.