Catherine Louisa Pirkis

We are all unworthy of a good woman’s love,” I answered. “But, thank Heaven, the good women don’t seem to realise it.

Character determines action,” she said, slowly, at last. “That is the secret of the great novelists. They put themselves behind and within their characters, and so make us feel that every act of their personages is not only natural but even—given the conditions—inevitable.