What can we possibly conclude from these discrepant points of view? Our popular attitudes could be summed up as a combination of wishful thinking and stark terror.
Which would, in a way, be the greatest gift that we could ever give them. -And which would paradoxically make them respect us even more. Okay, forget that. Go back one.
Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your ambition will ever be gratified. I came to try you. I hoped to find you reasonable; but, depend upon it, I will carry my point.