"I know every silly girl thinks she has found just that man, but it's only once in a thousand times she does; and she's mighty lucky if she don't find out that the man in a thousand is another woman's husband, when she gets her eyes open.
Then there's another thing: nothing has ever come betwixt us." "I don't know what you mean." "I mean we've had no family," said Sylvia, firmly, although her color deepened.

"I know you think it's awful for me to say such a thing, but look right up and down this street at the folks that got married about the same time Henry and I did.

How many of them that's had families 'ain't had reason to regret it?
I tell you what it is, child, girls don't know everything.

It's awful having children, and straining every nerve to bring them up right, and then to have them go off in six months in consumption, the way the Masons lost their three children, two boys and a girl.

Or to worry and fuss until you are worn to a shadow, the way Mrs.George Emerson has over her son, and then have him take to drink.