"I wonder if you appreciate what you say.

If you do, you take a great responsibility." "You frighten me a little, but I think I'm right," said Ralph, persisting in cheer.
"All the same what you say is very true," Isabel pursued.

"You could say nothing more true.

I'm absorbed in myself--I look at life too much as a doctor's prescription.

Why indeed should we perpetually be thinking whether things are good for us, as if we were patients lying in a hospital?
Why should I be so afraid of not doing right?
As if it mattered to the world whether I do right or wrong!" "You're a capital person to advise," said Ralph; "you take the wind out of my sails!" She looked at him as if she had not heard him--though she was following out the train of reflexion which he himself had kindled.