Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.