You cannot believe everything you hear
She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.
You have made him live.
I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.