She was slower, and more given to consideration.

It would be better that they should wait, even if it were for five or six years.

She had no fear of poverty for herself.

She had lived always in a house in which money was much regarded, and among people who were of inexpensive habits.

But such had not been his lot, and it was her duty to think of the mode of life which might suit him.
He would not be happy as a poor man--without comforts around him, which would simply be comforts to him though they would be luxuries to her.
When her mother told her, shaking her head rather sorrowfully as she heard Florence talk, that she did not like long engagements, Florence would shake hers too, in playful derision, and tell her mother not to be so suspicious.