[...]buds which hang broken and faded on the stalk; many side-chapels where love erects itself modest altars, are forsaken before it strides to the high one in the great nave of the church. And girl leaves sixteen or seventeen years behind her, without having obtained in a brother's friend, in a neighbour, in a vis-a-vis, a small ideal for the preliminary studies of love. There is a heart's idolatry even in earliest youth; yet the roots of such affections only rest loosely in the lightest soil.[...].