How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
[Anne speaks] "I believe you [men] equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as--if I may be allowed the expression--so long as you have an object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." (23.32)
While Anne is making a statement about gender difference here, she's also very conscious that Wentworth is eavesdropping on her conversation – how much influence does that have on the positions she takes?