"Mother is really in much better health, and has got pretty well prepared to expect almost anything from me.

She has become resigned to me as a 'working person.' Then, too, I'm thoroughly inoculated with the habit of doing as I please.
I guess that's from being independent and having my own money.

What a good thing money is!" "So long as it means independence," suggested Lorry; "but not after it means dependence." But Estelle was thinking of their future.

The delay, the seemingly endless delay, made her even more impatient than it made him, as is always the case where the woman is really in love.

In the man love holds the impetuosity of passion in leash; in the woman it rouses the deeper, the more enduring force of the maternal instinct--not merely the unconscious or, at most, half-conscious longing for the children that are to be, but the desire to do for the man--to look after his health, his physical comfort, to watch over and protect him; for, to the woman in love, the man seems in those humble ways less strong than she--a helpless creature, dependent on her.