Dunno about me.

I was always a bit larky.

And yet d'you know, I think if yer father hadn't been a sort of young god, with his head in the skies, and no reg'lar income, if he'd a married me and been kind to me ...

I should have been an honest woman all the rest of me life....
"What do _you_ feel about morality?
You don't seem to have much faith in religion, yet you've always taken a high line--and somehow I'm glad you have--about things that never seemed to me to matter much.

We're given these passions and desires--and my! don't it hurt, falling in love!--and then the clergy, though they're awful humbugs, tells us we must deny our cravings..." _Vivie_: "In the main the clergy are right in what they preach though they give the wrong reasons.