You can live anything down, but you won't let us.

There is no fresh start for a woman; there never was and never will be." I protested that this was unfair.

"I never said that, or anything like it, Mrs.Lascellcs!" "No, you don't say it, but you think it!" she cried back.

"It is the one thing you have in your mind.

I was unhappy, I did wrong, so I can never be happy, I can never do right! I am unfit to marry again, to marry a good man, even if he loves me, even if I love him!" "I neither say nor think anything of the kind," I reiterated, and with some slight effect this time.