You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.