I let him go on a voyage of discovery, and he came back perfectly satisfied.

That is all.

You do not need his experience." "How do you know ?" I asked.
"You are a woman--your desire is to be well and strong, health being beauty--to love and to be beloved--to wear pretty toilettes and to be admired; and you have a creed which satisfies you, and which you believe in without proofs." There was the slightest possible tinge of mockery in his voice as he said these words.

A tumultuous rush of feelings overcame me.

My high dreams of ambition, my innate scorn of the trite and commonplace, my deep love of art, my desires of fame--all these things bore down upon my heart and overcame it, and a pride too deep for tears arose in me and found utterance.
"You think I am so slight and weak a thing!" I exclaimed.