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Also she came a little reluctantly to the conclusion , as girls at twenty , whether they be Julias or Barbaras , usually do , that if there were a great many nice young men in the world , there were a great many marriageable girls , too . No girl could expect a very wide choice of adorers , there were too many other girls . And affairs of the heart , and offers of marriage , occurred much more often in books than in life . Two or three times a week Miss Toland liked to rise early and go to the beautiful eight o'clock mass at St. Anne 's , the big institution for unfortunate girls that was not far from The Alexander Toland Neighbourhood House . There was no church in the immediate vicinity , and in asking for permission to come to the convent chapel , Miss Toland had felt herself doing no extraordinary thing , had felt almost within her rights . But the good nuns in charge of St. Anne 's had whetted her appetite for the experience by interposing unexpected objections . Their charges , they explained , about two hundred in number , were very impressionable , very easily excited .