"To what?"
"Not to fall in love with them exactly, but to be ready to be fallen in love with, and then if a man does do it he is a deceiver. I declare it seems to me that we don't allow them a chance of going right."
"I think that Augustus manages to steer through such difficulties very cleverly."
"He sails about in the open sea, touching at all the most lovely capes and promontories, and is never driven on shore by stress of weather! What a happy sailor he must be!"
"I think he is happy, and that he makes others so."
"He ought to be made an admiral at once But we shall hear some day of his coming to a terrible shipwreck."
"Oh, I hope not!"
"He will return home in desperate plight, with only two planks left together, with all his glory and beauty broken and crumpled to pieces against some rock that he has despised in his pride."
"Why do you prophesy such terrible things for him?"
"I mean that he will get married."