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簡在圖書館再次遇到湯姆，湯姆認為她缺乏必要的生活經歷，并推薦些書給簡看。看完這些書，簡告訴湯姆，自己并不贊成書中的道德準則...
Jane: I have read your book. I have read your book and disapprove.
Tom: - Of course you do. But of what? The scenes? Characters? The prose?
Jane: No, all good.
Tom: The morality?
Jane: Flawed.
Tom: Well, of course, it is. But why? Vice leads to difficulty, virtue to reward. Bad characters come to bad ends.
Jane: Exactly. But in life, bad characters often thrive. Take yourself. And a novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.
Tom: What of my hero's feelings?
Jane: Well, it seems to me, sir, that your hero's very vigorous feelings caused him and everyone connected with him a great deal of trouble.
Tom: Ah, well, if the book has troubled you...
Jane: Oh, but an orphan must know trouble.
Lucy: What sort of trouble?
Jane: All sorts of trouble.
