She was grand, but she was highly solicitous; she was indifferent, but she was all in a passion.

"What sort of a person should you have liked me to marry ?" she asked suddenly.
"You talk about one's soaring and sailing, but if one marries at all one touches the earth.

One has human feelings and needs, one has a heart in one's bosom, and one must marry a particular individual.

Your mother has never forgiven me for not having come to a better understanding with Lord Warburton, and she's horrified at my contenting myself with a person who has none of his great advantages--no property, no title, no honours, no houses, nor lands, nor position, nor reputation, nor brilliant belongings of any sort.

It's the total absence of all these things that pleases me.