You are engaged to marry John Grey.

That may be delicate enough if you love him truly, and feel yourself fitted to be his wife; but it's about the most indelicate thing you can do, if you love any one better than him.

Delicacy with many women is like their cleanliness.

Nothing can be nicer than the whole outside get-up, but you wouldn't wish to answer for anything beneath." "If you think ill of me like that--" "No; I don't think ill of you.

How can I think ill of you when I know that all your difficulties have come from him?
It hasn't been your fault; it has been his throughout.