All I could say I said to combat her rebellious despondency as to her own future.
"If you knew the emptiness and foolishness of the gay world," I said in a sage manner, "you would be thankful for our quiet life at Hillsbro'." "It is not the gay world I think of," she said.

"It is the world of thought, of genius." "Well, Jane," said I, cheerfully, "you may pierce your way to that yet." "No!" she said.

"If I had a clean name I would try to do it.

As it is, I will not hold up my head only to be pointed at.

But I will not spend my life at Hillsbro', moping.