"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. There are other things a woman can do."