Girls' lives are so stupid: they never do what they like." "I thought that was more the case of the men.

They are forced to do hard things, and are often dreadfully bored, and knocked to pieces too.
And then, if we love a girl very dearly we want to do as she likes, so after all you have your own way." "I don't believe it.

I never saw a married woman who had her own way." "What should you like to do ?" said Rex, quite guilelessly, and in real anxiety.
"Oh, I don't know!--go to the North Pole, or ride steeple-chases, or go to be a queen in the East like Lady Hester Stanhope," said Gwendolen, flightily.

Her words were born on her lips, but she would have been at a loss to give an answer of deeper origin.
"You don't mean you would never be married ?" "No; I didn't say that.

Only when I married, I should not do as other women do." "You might do just as you liked if you married a man who loved you more dearly than anything else in the world," said Rex, who, poor youth, was moving in themes outside the curriculum in which he had promised to win distinction.