"You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."

(Mr. Bennett to Mrs. Bennett)

You Mistake Me.....

"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least."



Watercolor Illustration by C. E. Brock

The Beginning

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."