Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.