'At all events'-- his voice faltered a little--'I'm afraid you don't.' 'Afraid?
Oh'-- she laughed--'don't be afraid.

I have plenty of courage, and quite enough obstinacy.

It rather does me good when people show they have no faith in me.' 'You didn't understand,' murmured Harvey.
'Then make me understand,' she exclaimed nervously, moving in the chair as if about to stand up, but remaining seated and bent forward, her eyes fixed upon him in a sort of good-humoured challenge.

'I believe I know what you mean, all the time.

You didn't discuss me with Mamma, as I suspected, but you think about me just as she does .-- No, let me go on, then you shall confess I was right.