"No—I don't; I shall try to console myself with that.But there are a certain number of very dazzling men in the world, no doubt; and if there were only one it would be enough. The most dazzling of all will make straight for you. You'll be sure to take no one who isn't dazzling."
"If you mean by dazzling brilliantly clever," Isabel said—"and I can't imagine what else you mean—I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can 昀nd it out for myself."
"Find out how to live alone? I wish that, when you have, you'd teach me!"