That is so.

Or in Miss Deane's case it may be an illustration of the statement that 'Mary hath chosen the better part.' Certainly when either men or women are happy in a state of single blessedness, a reference to the Seventh Chapter of the Epistle of St.Paul to the Corinthians, will strengthen their minds and considerably assist them to remain in that condition." Thus Bunce would express himself, with a weighty air as of having given some vastly important and legal pronouncement.

And when Helmsley suggested that it was possible Mary might yet marry, he shook his head in a strongly expressed negative.
"No, David--no!" he said--"She is what we call--yes, I think we call it--an old maid.

This is not a kind term, perhaps, but it is a true one.
She is, I believe, in her thirty-fifth year,--a settled and mature woman.

No man would take her unless she had a little money--enough, let us say, to help him set up a farm.