But love generally comes easily enough.

With all her doubts Alice never doubted her love for Mr Grey.

Nor did she doubt his character, nor his temper, nor his means.

But she had gone on thinking of the matter till her mind had become filled with some undefined idea of the importance to her of her own life.

What should a woman do with her life?
There had arisen round her a flock of learned ladies asking that question, to whom it seems that the proper answer has never yet occurred.