What did the man see in her that he should desire her ?" "Father, you never can tell how much brains men like with their beauty.
Very little will do generally.

And Dora has beauty--great beauty; no one can deny that.

I think Dora is giving up a great deal.

To her, at least, marriage is a state of passing from perfect freedom into the comparative condition of a slave, giving up her own way constantly for some one else's way." "Well, Ethel, the remedy is in the lady's hands.

She is not forced to marry, and the slavery that is voluntary is no hardship.