"Do you think Lord Warburton could make me any better than I am?" the girl asked with some animation."I don't mean I'm too good to improve. I mean that I don't love Lord Warburton enough to marry him."
"You did right to refuse him then," said Mrs.Touchett in her smallest, sparest voice. "Only, the next great offer you get, I hope you'll manage to come up to your standard."