It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.