And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.

“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is n…”

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she cer…”

“It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope …”

“Such I was, from eight to eight-and-twenty; and such I might still have been bu…”