When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them

In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,

Written By Wilkie Collins

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