Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

To be tied down to the regular payment of such a sum, on every rent day, is by no means desirable: it takes away one’s independence.”

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

with lovers it is different. Between them no subject is finished, no communication is even made, till it has been made at least twenty times over.