Henry James Quote

She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] [...]. But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold, hard, priggish person, and, on her at last getting up and going rather quickly back to the house, felt, as she had said to her friend, really frightened at herself.


Ch. XII. - The Portrait of a Lady (1881)


She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] [...]. But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold,...

She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] [...]. But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold,...

She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] [...]. But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold,...

She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] [...]. But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold,...