And do you know why she left us so suddenly?
She ran home gleefully to stitch and dust and beat carpets, and get baths ready, and look after the affairs of everybody, which she is sure must be going to rack and ruin because she has been away for half an hour!" At his words there sparkled in her face the fond delight with which a woman assures herself that the beloved one knows her little weaknesses, for she does not truly love unless she thirsts to have him understand the whole of her, and to love her in spite of the foibles and for them.

If he does not love you a little for the foibles, madam, God help you from the day of the wedding.
But though Grizel was pleased, she was not to be cajoled.

She wandered with him through the Den, stopping at the Lair, and the Queen's Bower, and many other places where the little girl used to watch Tommy suspiciously; and she called, half merrily, half plaintively: "Are you there, you foolish girl, and are you wringing your hands over me?
I believe you are jealous because I love him best." "We have loved each other so long, she and I," she said apologetically to Tommy.

"Ah," she said impulsively, when he seemed to be hurt, "don't you see it is because she doubts you that I am so sorry for the poor thing!" "Dearest, darlingest," she called to the child she had been, "don't think that you can come to me when he is away, and whisper things against him to me.

Do you think I will listen to your croakings, you poor, wet-faced thing!" "You child!" said Tommy.
"Do you think me a child because I blow kisses to her ?" "Do you like me to think you one ?" he replied.
"I like you to call me child," she said, "but not to think me one." "Then I shall think you one," said he, triumphantly.