The details she ignored.
Bottled porter was not a drink she cared for, and no woman, however emancipated, likes a pipe.

In spite of the satisfaction she found in her literary success, there was in her a desire for quiet and restful ways of life.

There was no doubt that she would sleep sounder at night if she lived simply, somewhere in the country, and forgot the excitements of the novelist's art.

Meldon, indeed, did not seem to enjoy absolutely unbroken rest at night; but Miss King's imagination, although she wrote improper novels, did not insist on representing a baby as an inevitable part of domesticated life.

She got no further than the dream of a peaceful house, with the figure of an inoffensive husband somewhere in the background..