I have found an honest and excellent man [Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet, the painter] who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.

remark to her brother Tuburce, 1875; as quoted in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends Denish Rouart - newly introduced by Kathleen Adler and Tamer Garb; Camden Press London 198, pp. 95-96