After what you have just said to me, I should be insensible indeed if I didn't respect and admire you as well." "Do you know many wives, my dear Rachel, who respect and admire their husbands?
And yet they and their husbands get on very well.

How many brides go to the altar with hearts that would bear inspection by the men who take them there?
And yet it doesn't end unhappily--somehow or other the nuptial establishment jogs on.

The truth is, that women try marriage as a Refuge, far more numerously than they are willing to admit; and, what is more, they find that marriage has justified their confidence in it.

Look at your own case once again.

At your age, and with your attractions, is it possible for you to sentence yourself to a single life?
Trust my knowledge of the world--nothing is less possible.