You grow six inches high, and then you stop.

Why will not somebody grow to be a tree and cast a shadow ?" The average member of New York society, although not unused to this contemptuous kind of treatment from his leaders, retaliated in his blind, common-sense way.

"What does the woman want ?" he said.

"Is her head turned with the Tulieries and Marlborough House?
Does she think herself made for a throne?
Why does she not lecture for women's rights?
Why not go on the stage?
If she cannot be contented like other people, what need is there for abusing us just because she feels herself no taller than we are?
What does she expect to get from her sharp tongue?
What does she know, any way ?" Mrs.Lee certainly knew very little.

She had read voraciously and promiscuously one subject after another.