Have you not been very long ?" "I think I have," he answered, as he drew his wife to his side, and walked on with her.
"We met one of the servants at the second stile, but I went on all the way." "You have been intimate with the Hares ?" "Quite so.

Cornelia is related to them." "Do you think Barbara pretty ?" "Very." "Then--intimate as you were--I wonder you never fell in love with her." Mr.Carlyle laughed; a very conscious laugh, considering the recent interview.
"Did you, Archibald ?" The words were spoken in a low tone, almost, or he fancied it, a tone of emotion, and he looked at her in amazement.

"Did I what, Isabel ?" "You never loved Barbara Hare ?" "Loved _her_! What is your head running on, Isabel?
I never loved but one; and that one I made my own, my cherished wife.".