I know the symptoms of liver too, Esther! What if it should be _Love_!" The idea was so daring that Miss Macnair justly spoke it in italics.

But the attitude of her listener was disappointing.

Esther looked as if it might be quite a natural thing for the minister of Knox Church to fall in love.
"Love!" she said the word caressingly.

"Perhaps it is.

They say love is a disturbing thing.