As you know, I always used to think that Robert and I would live together, and I am quite sure that I should never have left him if he had lived.

If I had stopped in England I should have done the work I had trained myself to do, and it might have been years and years, and perhaps never, before anyone might have taken a fancy to me, or I to him.

It seems strange, and I really don't think pleasant, uncle, for everyone to take it for granted that because a girl comes out to India she is a candidate for marriage.

I think it is degrading, uncle." "The Doctor was telling me yesterday that you had some idea of that sort," the Major said, with a slight smile, "and I think girls often start with that sort of idea.

But it is like looking on at a game.