Moreover poor, outcast Vivie has her own bitter pride.

She is resolved to show that a woman _can_ cultivate strength of character and an unflinching sobriety of conduct, even when born of such doubtful stock as mine, even when devoid of all religious faith.

I know you love me, I glory in the knowledge, but I know that you likewise are more strongly bound by principles of right conduct because like myself you have no sham theology....
"Michael! _why_ are we tortured like this?
Why mayn't we love where we please?
Is this discipline necessary to the improvement of the race?
I only know that if we sinned against these human laws and conventions, your great career in Science--and again, why in Science?
Lightness in love does not seem to affect the career of orchestral conductors, actors, singers, play-wrights and house painters--why weren't you one of these, and not a High Priest of the only real religion?
I only know also that if I fell, so many people would have the satisfaction of saying: 'There! _what_ did I say?
What's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh.

_That's_ how the Woman's Movement's goin' to end, you take my word for it! They'll get a man somewhere, somehow, and then they'll clear out of it.' "I think I said before--I meant to say, at any rate, so as to ease your mind: I'm all right as regards financial matters.

I have a life annuity and some useful savings.