I said I supposed she thought Kranitski would be strong enough to do without marriage.
"I think so," she said, "but then, I hardly know him."
"Does your theory apply to women, too?" I asked. "Are there some women who are strong enough to face life alone?"
She said women were strong enough to do either. In either case life was for them just as difficult.
I asked if she thought Miss Brandon would be happier married or not married.
"Jean would never marry unless she married the right person, the man she wanted to marry," she said.
"Would the person she wanted to marry," I said, "necessarily be the right person?"
"He would be more right for her, whatever the drawbacks, than anyone else."
I said I supposed nearly everyone thought they were marrying the right person, and yet how strangely most marriages turned out.
"Nothing better than marriage has been invented, all the same," she said, "and if people marry when they are old enough...."