Everybody knows precisely how she will behave under every conceivable combination of circumstances in which you can place her.

On every occasion she will do the same thing--that is the right thing.
"With a bad heroine, on the other hand, you can never be quite sure what is going to happen.

Out of the fifty or so courses open to her, she may take the right one, or she may take one of the forty-nine wrong ones, and you watch her with curiosity to see which it will be." "But surely there are plenty of good heroines who are interesting," I said.
"At intervals--when they do something wrong," answered Jephson.

"A consistently irreproachable heroine is as irritating as Socrates must have been to Xantippe, or as the model boy at school is to all the other lads.

Take the stock heroine of the eighteenth-century romance.