Is not general incivility the very essence of love? - Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; — if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

to hope was to expect

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.