I, worse luck, was not one of them.
Dull! You, with your hundred thousand things to do, cannot conceive how oppressively dull my life was.

And that was not all!" She hesitated, but she could not stop midway, and it was far too late for her to recover her ground.

She went on to the end.
"I married, as I say, knowing nothing of the important things.

I believed at the first that mine was just the allotted life of all women.
But I began soon to have my doubts.

I got to know that there was something more to be won out of existence than mere dulness; at least, that there was something more for others, though not for me.