They must make their own discoveries, fight their own battles, sink or swim, together; and I have determined that not by the winking of an eye will I interfere between them." "Well, but do you think John wants you to go ?" "He feels badly about it; and yet I have convinced him that it's best.
Poor fellow! all these changes are not a bit to his taste.

He liked the old place as it was, and the old ways; but John is so unselfish.
He has got it in his head that Lillie is very sensitive and peculiar, and that her spirits require all these changes, as well as Newport air." "Well," said Letitia, "if a man begins to say A in that line, he must say B." "Of course," said Grace; "and also C and D, and so on, down to X, Y, Z.A woman, armed with sick-headaches, nervousness, debility, presentiments, fears, horrors, and all sorts of imaginary and real diseases, has an eternal armory of weapons of subjugation.

What can a man do?
Can he tell her that she is lying and shamming?
Half the time she isn't; she can actually work herself into about any physical state she chooses.

The fortnight before Lillie went to Newport, she really looked pale, and ate next to nothing; and she managed admirably to seem to be trying to keep up, and not to complain,--yet you see how she can go on at Newport." "It seems a pity John couldn't understand her." "My dear, I wouldn't have him for the world.

Whenever he does, he will despise her; and then he will be wretched.