I promise not to trouble you with any more complaining.

But how you can live such a life I don't know.

I consider myself more of a reader than women generally are, and I should be mortally offended if anyone called me frivolous; but I must have a good deal of society.

Really and truly, I can't live without it.' 'No ?' said Amy, with a smile which meant more than Edith could interpret.

It seemed slightly condescending.
'There's no knowing; perhaps if I had married a literary man---' She paused, smiling and musing.