How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Maggie perceived that here was the beau ideal of a man. Her dim thoughts were often searching for far away lands where, as God says, the little hills sing together in the morning. Under the trees of her dream-gardens there had always walked a lover. (5.25)
Maggie gets a lot of her ideas from fairytales and the sort of happily-ever-after stuff in music halls. She doesn't so much fall in love with Pete as she falls in love with whatever image she has projected onto him.