But just think of me! Why I should be thought no more of than a servant.

I suppose I should have to make friends with the milkman and the butcher's boy; I don't see who else I should have to talk to.

How's a girl to get married if she spends all her time in a nursery teaching children grammar?
You don't seem to care whether you're ever married or not, but I do, and it's precious hard to have all my chances taken away.
This was Jessie's incessant preoccupation; she could not talk for five minutes without returning to it.

Herein she only exaggerated her sisters' habits of mind.

The girls had begun to talk of 'sweethearts' and husbands before they were well out of the nursery.