A woman who can do as I did by instinct, needs to have an angel always near her, if she has not a husband she reveres.' 'We are none of us better than you, dear Tony; only some are more fortunate, and many are cowards,' Emma said.

'You acted prudently in a wretched situation, partly of your own making, partly of the circumstances.

But a nature like yours could not sit still and moan.
That marriage was to blame! The English notion of women seems to be that we are born white sheep or black; circumstances have nothing to do with our colour.

They dread to grant distinctions, and to judge of us discerningly is beyond them.

Whether the fiction, that their homes are purer than elsewhere, helps to establish the fact, I do not know: there is a class that does live honestly; and at any rate it springs from a liking for purity; but I am sure that their method of impressing it on women has the dangers of things artificial.