"You could not have been content with your life in Dublin," she said.
"Are you content with your life in Dresden ?" "Certainly not.

We all like exercise; but the man who has had his leg cut off can't walk.

Some can walk with safety; others only with a certain peril; and others cannot at all.

You are in the second position, but I am in the last." "I do not see why you should not return." "And if I did what would come of it?
In place of the seclusion of Dresden, there would be the seclusion of Portman Square or of Saulsby.

Who would care to have me at their houses, or to come to mine?
You know what a hazardous, chancy, short-lived thing is the fashion of a woman.