I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.
Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.