He was like her, and understood her, and was at ease with her, as her daughters had never been.

The trouble of her life was the death of her son.

She got over it, as she got over everything; but when several years afterwards his widow, with whom, it is hardly necessary to say, she was not on speaking terms, suddenly died (being a faint-hearted, feeble creature), Lady Deyncourt immediately took possession of her grandchildren--a boy and two girls--and proceeded as far as in her lay to ruin the boy for life.
"A woman," she was apt to remark in after years, "is not intended by nature to manage any man except her husband.

I am a warning to the mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, particularly the grandmothers, of the future.

A husband is a sufficient field for the employment of a woman's whole energies.