You have brought sunshine from the first, not from a sense of duty, not out of sheer humiliating pity, but because it was the impulse of your strength to help and cheer one who was so weak, and if--if--anything--Well, I want you to know before you go away that I appreciate it all and shall never forget it." "Oh, come, Madge, don't talk so dismally.

What do you mean by 'if--if--anything'?
You are going to get strong and well, and we will open the campaign together next fall." She shook her head, but asked, lightly, "How will Miss Wildmere endure your absence ?" "Easier than you, I imagine.

She knows how to console herself.

Still, as my little sister, I will tell you in confidence that she was very kind in our parting interview.

How much her kindness meant only she herself knows, and I've been in society long enough to know that it may mean very little." "Are you so wholly bent upon winning her, Graydon ?" "Oh, you little Mother Eve! You are surely going to get well.