'But there are other sorts of mistakes to make, of course.

If Althea falls in love with a man equipped as I'm not equipped, that does prove that I lack something that would have won her; but it doesn't prove that she's found the right man.

We've got beyond natural selection when it comes to life as a whole.

He may be the man for her to fall in love with, but is he the man to make her happy?
That's just the question for me, Miss Buchanan, and I wish you'd help me with it.' 'Help you ?' Helen rather faltered.
'Yes, please try.

You must see--I see it plainly enough--that Mr.Digby is going to marry Althea.' He actually didn't add, 'If she'll have him.' Helen wondered how far his perspicacity went; had he seen what Gerald had seen, and what she had not seen at all?
'You think it's Gerald who is in love with her ?' she asked.
Again Franklin's eye was on her, and she now saw in it his deep perplexity.