all definitions are indefinite.  She knew that in the case of marriage
everything depends upon the definer and the occasion. 

"So you see there is no immediate cause to grieve, my dear," resumed
her father. 

She did not quite see that this was the logical conclusion of the
whole matter; but that was possibly because she was born a woman, and
felt that marriage is to a woman what a keel is to a ship. 

"I think there is a very good cause to grieve when we find a man like
George Holland turning deliberately round from truth to falsehood,"
said Phyllis sternly. 

"And what's worse, running a very good chance of losing his living,"
remarked the father.  "Of course it will have to be proved that Moses
and Abraham and David and the rest of them were not what he says they
were; and it strikes me that all the bench of bishops, and a royal
commissioner or two thrown in, would have considerable difficulty in
doing that nowadays."