It has interested me, dear Miss Mulock, as a book should, and I am delighted to recognise everywhere undeniable talent and faculty, combined with high and pure aspiration.

A clever book, a graceful book, and with the moral grace besides--thank you.

Many must have thanked you as well as myself.
At the same time, precisely because I feel particularly obliged to you, I mean to tell you the truth.

Your hero is heroic from his own point of view--accepting his own view of the situation, which I, for one, cannot accept, do you know, for I am of opinion that both you and he are rather conventional on the subject of his marriage.

I don't in the least understand, at this moment, why he should not have married in the first volume; no, not in the least.