Wanted - A Match Maker — Paul Leicester Ford

"You understand, Josie, that I wouldn't for a moment wish Constance to marry without being in love, but-" Mrs. Durant hesitated long enough to convey the inference that she was unfeminine enough to place a value on her own words, and then, the pause having led to a change, or, at least, modification of what had almost found utterance, she continued, with a touch of petulance which suggested that the general principle had in the mind of the speaker a special application, "It is certainly a great pity that the modern girl should be so unimpressionable "