I think it is the sweetest thing about God that He lets us do some of it ourselves.

Do I hurt you, darling ?" No, she did not hurt him, for he understood her.

"But you are naturally so impulsive," he said, "it has often been a sharp pain to me to see you so careful." "It was not a pain to me to be careful; it was a joy.

Oh, the thousand dear, delightful joys I have had with you!" "It has made you strong, Grizel, and I rejoice in that; but sometimes I fear that it has made you too difficult to win." "I don't want to be won," she told him.
"You don't quite mean that, Grizel." "No," she said at once.

She whispered to him impulsively: "It is the only thing I am at all afraid of now." "What ?" "Love." "You will not be afraid of it when it comes." "But I want to be afraid," she said.
"You need not," he answered.