I was so afraid she was going to stop and see us off the premises." "I don't know why you should dislike her." "I don't dislike her.

I like her very well," said Lily Dale.

"But don't you feel that there are people whom one knows very intimately, who are really friends,--for whom if they were dying one would grieve, whom if they were in misfortune one would go far to help, but with whom for all that one can have no sympathy.

And yet they are so near to one that they know all the events of one's life, and are justified by unquestioned friendship in talking about things which should never be mentioned except where sympathy exists." "Yes; I understand that." "Everybody understands it who has been unhappy.

That woman sometimes says things to me that make me wish,--wish that they'd make him bishop of Patagonia.