Therefore you see it's all as yet rather a dark question for poor Nanda--a question that in a way quite occupies the foreground of her mother's earnest little life.

How WILL she look, what will be thought of her and what will she be able to do for herself?
She's at the age when the whole thing--speaking of her 'attractions,' her possible share of good looks--is still to a degree in a fog.

But everything depends on it." Mr.Longdon had by this time come back to him.

"Excuse my asking it again--for you take such jumps: what, once more, do you mean by everything ?" "Why naturally her marrying.

Above all her marrying early." Mr.Longdon stood before the sofa.