Your books and your new friend will be your chief, if not only companions.

Her life is not a social one, because she has formed extravagant notions of the importance of lonely worship and devout solitude.

Much of her time will be spent in meditation upon pious books in her closet.

Some of it in long solitary rides in her coach, for the sake of exercise.

Little will remain for eating and sleeping, so that unless you can prevail upon her to violate her ordinary rules for your sake, you will be left pretty much to yourself.