It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?