But I see now that my view of her failed by incompleteness.

The modern woman need by no means be a mere embodied intellect; she will choose to enjoy as well as to understand, and to enjoy greatly she will sacrifice all sorts of things that women have regarded as supremely important.

Indeed, I cannot say that I am disappointed in Cecily; rightly seen, she has justified the system on which I educated her.

My object was to teach her to think for herself, to be self-reliant.

The _jeune fille_, according to society's pattern, is my abhorrence: an ignorant, deceitful, vain, immoral creature.