I was educated in a French convent--if you know what that means.

All my life I have been guarded--sheltered from knowledge of evil; I am still unprepared to comprehend--...

And I am still very ignorant; I know that....

So you see how it was with me; a girl awakened to such self-knowledge cannot grasp it entirely--cannot wholly convince herself except at moments--at night.

Sometimes--when a crisis threatens--and one has lain awake long in the dark--" She gathered her knees in her arms and stared at the patch of sunlight that lay across the hem of her gown, leaving her feet shod in gold.
"I don't know how much difference it really makes to the world.