But I am afraid your good wishes for Sybil are beyond any hope of realization.

She is far too honest to flourish in society.

She will probably marry a Bishop or a Cabinet Minister, and become engrossed in theology or politics.

You know how limiting that sort of thing is.
I am in deadly fear that she may become humdrum.

A woman who really studies or knows anything about anything can never be a really brilliant woman." "You--" "Oh, I pass for being intelligent because I parade my ignorance so, just as Sophie Mills is considered a paragon of morality because she is always talking about running off with one of the boys in her husband's regiment.