I've been reading James' The Portrait of a Lady as part of my ongoing reading-classic-novels-of-the-last-two-centuries-I-somehow-missed-in-my-education-thus-far project. This is my favorite part so far:
"'Young girls here - in decent houses - don't sit alone with the gentlemen late at night.'
'You were very right to tell me then,' said Isabel. 'I don't understand it, but I'm very glad to know it.'
'I shall always tell you,' her aunt answered, 'whenever I see you taking what seems to me too much liberty.'
'Pray do; but i don't say I shall always think your remonstrance just.'
'Very likely not. You're too fond of your own ways.'
'Yes, I think I'm very fond of them. But I always want to know the things one shouldn't do.'
'So as to do them?' asked her aunt.
'So as to choose,' said Isabel."
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