...Effie, is no exception: "'It would be very sweet and attractive of me to say I adore them [children]; but I never pretend to feelings I can't keep up, don't...'I'll so far sacrifice myself as to get her for you?'" (18-19). Clearly, Rose is a transgressive character, but she is initially contained and circumscribed...

...beautiful frankness." Jean's bewilderment began to look as if she too now, as she remembered, understood and liked these things. It might have been in confirmation..."Then do get her." "Not yet, not yet!" cried another voice—that of Mrs. Beever, who had just been introduced and who, having heard the last words of the...