If you're all armed for the sacrifices you speak of I simply am not.

I don't think I'm quite a monster, but I don't pretend to be a saint.

I'm an English wife and an English mother--I live in the mixed English world.

My daughter, at any rate, is just my daughter, I thank my stars, and one of a good English bunch: she's not the unique niece of my dead Italian husband, nor doubtless either, in spite of her excellent birth, of a lineage, like Aggie's, so very tremendous.

I've my life to lead and she's a part of it.