"I'm more than a girl, I'm a woman, mother, who sees life all around me, from the insect to the mountain, and I know things without being told.

I always did.

Just life and living tell me things, and maybe, too, the Irish in me that father was." "It's so odd.

You're such a mixture of fun and fancy, at least you always have been; but there's something new in you these days.

Kitty, you make me afraid--yes, you make your mother afraid.