Success on that scale don't make for happiness. Look at Asquith. Why does he drink? I wouldn't want you to end up a drunkard like that. - Susan Howatch

Every woman needs a special friend of her own sex with whom she can 'have a haircombing' about everything from menstruation to male monsters, and Julie had become that kind of special friend.

I deserve to be thought a coward. I am a coward. I'm just so bloody afraid of dying — of losing —

One must be rational about such matters and being rational need not mean being cold.