I can hardly understand that it should have grown from personal liking on your side." "I think it has," said Madame Goesler, slowly.

"You see, Mr.Finn, that you as a young man can hardly understand how natural it is that a young woman,--if I may call myself young,--should minister to an old man." "But there should be some bond to the old man." "There is a bond." "You must not be angry with me," said Phineas.
"I am not in the least angry." "I should not venture to express any opinion, of course,--only that you ask me." "I do ask you, and you are quite welcome to express your opinion.

And were it not expressed, I should know what you thought just the same.
I have wondered at it myself sometimes,--that I should have become as it were engulfed in this new life, almost without will of my own.

And when he dies, how shall I return to the other life?
Of course I have the house in Park Lane still, but my very maid talks of Matching as my home." "How will it be when he has gone ?" "Ah,--how indeed?
Lady Glencora and I will have to curtsey to each other, and there will be an end of it.

She will be a duchess then, and I shall no longer be wanted." "But even if you were wanted-- ?" "Oh, of course.