Lord Merton: 'Whoever she is, I wish she would mind her own affairs: I don't know what the devil a woman lives for after thirty: she is only in other folks way. Shall you be at the assembly?'
Evelina: 'I believe not, my Lord.'
Lord Merton: 'No!--why then how in the world can you contrive to pass your time?'
Mrs. Selwyn (the slighted 30+): 'In a manner that your Lordship will think very extraordinary, for the young Lady reads.'
[Burn!]
-Frances Burney, Evelina
(P.S. The most entertaining 18th century novel I've read so far)
