I illustrate all these shocking things--poor me! How do I illustrate them ?' 'In the whole of your attitude towards myself of late.

You pooh-pooh my feelings, you refuse to regard me as anything but a donkey, you prophesy that in a year or two I shall repent having made a disinterested marriage.

I observe the difference between your point of view and my father's.

The worst of it is you are sincere: the circumstances of the case do not call upon you for an expression of graceful sentiments, and you are not ashamed to show me how meanly you regard all that is highest and purest in life.' 'Shall I explain it?
Women are very quick to get at realities, to see below the surface in conduct and profession.

We become, you say, worldly as soon as we get into the world.