Shall I tell you the truth?
Magdalen is fretting over the departure of Francis Clare." Mrs.Vanstone looked up from her work with a gentle, smiling surprise.
"Surely not ?" she said.

"It is natural enough that Frank should be attracted by Magdalen; but I can't think that Magdalen returns the feeling.

Frank is so very unlike her; so quiet and undemonstrative; so dull and helpless, poor fellow, in some things.

He is handsome, I know, but he is so singularly unlike Magdalen, that I can't think it possible--I can't indeed." "My dear good lady!" cried Miss Garth, in great amazement; "do you really suppose that people fall in love with each other on account of similarities in their characters?
In the vast majority of cases, they do just the reverse.

Men marry the very last women, and women the very last men, whom their friends would think it possible they could care about.
Is there any phrase that is oftener on all our lips than 'What can have made Mr.So-and-So marry that woman ?'--or 'How could Mrs.So-and-So throw herself away on that man ?' Has all your experience of the world never yet shown you that girls take perverse fancies for men who are totally unworthy of them ?" "Very true," said Mrs.Vanstone, composedly.