But I positively forbid your putting her up on a pedestal and worshipping her.

In the first place, too great a sense of her own holiness might mar her present admirable but purely earthly management of our little household, thus seriously interfering with my comforts.

And in the second place, I feel it my duty to warn you from a habit of canonization, which, if too extensively indulged in, will inevitably warp your powers of frank and right judgment." Phebe laughed, but did not forget.
One afternoon, some time later, she was at the rectory, whither she had gone, at Mrs.Whittridge's request, to explain a new and intricate embroidery stitch.

They were upstairs in that lady's charming little sitting-room, Phebe on a low stool by her friend's side, and Halloway had just come in from a round of parochial visits and joined them there.
"Mrs.Whittridge," said Phebe, suddenly, "do you think it is possible to care too much for one's friends?
Mr.Halloway says one can.

I know he means that I do." Mrs.Whittridge laid her hand caressingly on the girl's bonny brown hair.
"How can I judge, my child?
I do not even know who your friends are." "Who are they, in fact ?" said Denham, drawing up a chair and seating himself in front of the group by the table.