Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such hum... - Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

"Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed"as some amiable theorists would have us believe."