But relatively speaking it would be a little prosaic.

It would be definitely marked out in advance; it would be wanting in the unexpected.

You know I'm extremely fond of the unexpected, and now that you've kept the game in your hands I depend on your giving us some grand example of it." "I don't understand you very well," said Isabel, "but I do so well enough to be able to say that if you look for grand examples of anything from me I shall disappoint you." "You'll do so only by disappointing yourself and that will go hard with you!" To this she made no direct reply; there was an amount of truth in it that would bear consideration.

At last she said abruptly: "I don't see what harm there is in my wishing not to tie myself.

I don't want to begin life by marrying.