She expects to do this, and responds to these claims to the best of her ability, even heroically sometimes.

But where is the larger life of which she has dreamed so long?
That life which surrounds and completes the individual and family life?
She has been taught that it is her duty to share this life, and her highest privilege to extend it.

This divergence between her self-centred existence and her best convictions becomes constantly more apparent.

But the situation is not even so simple as a conflict between her affections and her intellectual convictions, although even that is tumultuous enough, also the emotional nature is divided against itself.

The social claim is a demand upon the emotions as well as upon the intellect, and in ignoring it she represses not only her convictions but lowers her springs of vitality.