I think men find women a little incomprehensible in this matter of their friends' marriage: in their largerheartedness, I presume, women are able to hope for their friends, even when they have lost all hope for themselves.
"No," replied Mary, amused at having thus misled her.

"It is neither so bad nor so good as that.

But I was far from comfortable in the shop without my father, and kept thinking how to find a life, more suitable for me.

It was not plain to me that my lot was cast there any longer, and one has no right to choose difficulty; for, even if difficulty be the right thing for you, the difficulty you choose can't be the right difficulty.

Those that are given to choosing, my father said, are given to regretting.