Pooh! If they only knew what a small part love plays with us, after all!" Sylvia said slowly: "It sometimes plays a small part, after all." "Always," insisted Grace with emphasis.

"No carefully watched girl knows what it is, whatever her suspicions may be.

When she marries, if she doesn't marry from family pressure or from her own motives of common-sense ambition, she marries because she likes the man, not because she loves him." Sylvia was silent.
"Because, even if she wanted to love him," continued Grace, "she would not know how.

It's the ingrained innocence which men encounter that they don't allow for or understand in us.

Even after we are married, and whether or not we learn to love our husbands, it remains part of us as an educated instinct; and it takes all the scientific, selfish ruthlessness of a man to break it down.