But wouldn't it be possible to make a better use of that money?
It is eight hundred pounds, I think?
Have you never thought of employing it in some practical enterprise ?' Virginia at first shrank in alarm, then trembled deliciously at her friend's bold views.
'Would it be possible?
Really?
You think--' 'I can only suggest, of course.

One mustn't argue about others from one's own habit of thought.

Heaven forbid'-- this sounded rather profane to the listener--'that I should urge you to do anything you would think rash.

But how much better if you could somehow secure independence.' 'Ah, if we could! The very thing we were saying the other day! But how?
I have no idea how.' Miss Nunn seemed to hesitate.
'I don't advise.

You mustn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.