We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!