It was evidently the only thing for _him_, whatever it may be for other people.
When you are of my age, May, you will rate things differently.

Well-bred men and women in society ought to be able to marry any body.

Society isn't heaven, and it's silly to behave as if it were.

Your romance is very pretty, dear; we all have it when we are young, as we have the measles and the whooping-cough.

But we get robust constitutions, my dear," said the old lady, smiling kindly, "when we have been through all that business.