When Ralph left her she thought over her state of mind, and came to the conclusion that it would be a good thing to learn a language--say Italian or German.

She then went to a drawer, which she had to unlock, and took from it certain deeply scored manuscript pages.
She read them through, looking up from her reading every now and then and thinking very intently for a few seconds about Ralph.

She did her best to verify all the qualities in him which gave rise to emotions in her; and persuaded herself that she accounted reasonably for them all.
Then she looked back again at her manuscript, and decided that to write grammatical English prose is the hardest thing in the world.

But she thought about herself a great deal more than she thought about grammatical English prose or about Ralph Denham, and it may therefore be disputed whether she was in love, or, if so, to which branch of the family her passion belonged..