For the rest, I shall probably always wish him different in some ways, just as I wish myself different.

I'd like to have him more like Arthur on the surface, just as I'd like to have myself more like Fanny.

I'd like to give him Arthur's manner just as I'd like to give myself Fanny's complexion.

But it isn't possible.

He will always be what he is now, and, after all, it is what he is--it is not something else that I want--" With a glimmer of the clairvoyant insight which had come to her on the country road, she understood that O'Hara was for her an embodied symbol of life--that she must either take him or leave him completely and without reserve or evasion.