"How can you ask me such a question as that ?" She was undisturbed.

Again he marvelled at the change in her.
"Is it so very extraordinary a question ?" she said.

"I have often wondered whether you meant to content yourself with your present life always.

It is scarcely worthy of you, is it?
You were born to other things than to live the life of a country gentleman.

You dabble in literature, they say, and poke your stick into politics through the pages of the reviews.