'Her views about me are very humble.

She considers that I shall be most fortunate if a doctor or a lawyer condescend to like me well enough to make me an offer.

He might make me the offer without liking me, for the sake of hearing himself and his wife announced as Mr.and Lady Mary Snooks at dinner parties.

That would be too horrid! But I daresay such things have happened.' 'Don't talk nonsense, Mary,' said Lesbia, loftily.

'There is no reason why you should not make a really good marriage, if you follow grandmother's advice and don't affect eccentricity.' 'I don't affect eccentricity, but I'm afraid I really am eccentric,' murmured Mary, meekly, 'for I like so many things I ought not to like, and detest so many things which I ought to admire.' 'I daresay you will have tamed down a little before you are presented,' said Lesbia, carelessly.
She could not even affect a profound interest in anyone but herself.