Now, would you like that ?" "No," I answered, "I certainly would not." "And don't you really think I ought to go to her with the message, and then come back and tell you how she took it and what she said ?" For nearly a minute I did not speak, but I knew she was right, and at last I admitted it.
"I am glad to hear you say so!" she exclaimed.

"As soon as dinner is over I shall drive to the Holly Sprig." We still walked on, and she proposed that we should go to the top of a hill beyond the orchard, where there was a pretty view.
"You may think me a strange sort of a girl," she said, presently, "but I can't help it.

I suppose I am strange.

I have often thought I would like very much to talk freely and honestly with a man about the reasons which people have for falling in love with each other.

Of course I could not ask my father or brother, because they would simply laugh at me and tell me that falling in love was very much like the springing up of weeds--generally without reason and often objectionable.