They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
Jane AustenFortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.
Jane Austen