When the period of that step comes, then love is proper enough; but up to that--before that--as regards all those preliminary passages which must, we suppose, be necessary--in all those it becomes a young lady to be icy-hearted as a river-god in winter.
O whistle and I'll come to you, my lad! O whistle and I'll come to you, my lad! Tho' father and mither and a' should go mad, O whistle and I'll come to you, my lad! This is the kind of love which a girl should feel before she puts her hand proudly in that of her lover, and consents that they two shall be made one flesh.
Mary felt no such love as this.

She, too, had some inner perception of that dread destiny by which it behoved Frank Gresham to be forewarned.

She, too--though she had never heard so much said in words--had an almost instinctive knowledge that his fate required him to marry money.

Thinking over this in her own way, she was not slow to convince herself that it was out of the question that she should allow herself to love Frank Gresham.

However well her heart might be inclined to such a feeling, it was her duty to repress it.