It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.
I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.
Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.