Kitty and Lydia take his defection much more to heart than I do. They are young in the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young men must have something to live on, as well as the plain.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 26. Elizabeth tells Mrs. Gardiner in a letter that her sisters Kitty and Lydia are taking her loss of George Wickham to another young woman worse than she is.