She had steeled herself for this inevitable interview, and there was no weakening of her defences; but a great sadness came into her eyes, and spread over her face, and to this was added, after a moment, a pity which showed the distance she was from him, the safety in which she stood.
"I remember that the garden was beautiful, and that thee spoke as though thee was part of the garden.

Thee remembers that, at our meeting in the Cloistered House, when the woman was ill, I had no faith in thee; but thee spoke with grace, and turned common things round about, so that they seemed different to the ear from any past hearing; and I listened.
I did not know, and I do not know now, why it is my duty to shun any of thy name, and above all thyself; but it has been so commanded by my father all my life; and though what he says may be in a little wrong, in much it must ever be right." "And so, from a hatred handed down, your mind has been tuned to shun even when your heart was learning to give me a home--Faith ?" She straightened herself.

"Friend, thee will do me the courtesy to forget to use my Christian name.

I am not a child-indeed, I am well on in years"-- he smiled--"and thee has no friendship or kinship for warrant.

If my mind was tuned to shun thee, I gave proof that it was willing to take thee at thine own worth, even against the will of my father, against the desire of David, who knew thee better than I--he gauged thee at first glance." "You have become a philosopher and a statesman," he said ironically.
"Has your nephew, the new Joseph in Egypt, been giving you instructions in high politics?
Has he been writing the Epistles of David to the Quakers ?" "Thee will leave his name apart," she answered with dignity.