I often wonder why, after writing _The Idyll_, Hester never goes near East London.

I should have gone straight off, and have cast in my lot with them if I had been in her place." "Do you ever find people do what you would have done if you had been in their place ?" "No, never.

They don't seem to see it.

It's a thing I can't understand the way people don't act up to their convictions.

And I do know, though I would not tell Hester so for worlds, that the fact that she goes on living comfortably in the country after bringing out that book makes thoughtful people, not me, of course, but other earnest-minded people, think she is a humbug." "It would--naturally," said Rachel.
"Well, now I am glad you agree with me, for I said something of the same kind to Mr.Scarlett last night, and he could not see it.