I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they're having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.'' That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall