"That is what I was afraid of.

I don't half understand or follow her, and when I think a thing nonsense, I see you all calling it very fine, and I don't know what to make of it--" "You are making yourself out more dull than you are," said Margaret affectionately.
"I know I am stupid, and seem tame and cold," said Richard, "and you are the only one that does not care about it.

That is what makes me wish Norman was the eldest.

If I were as clever as he, I could do so much with Ethel, and be so much more to papa." "No, you would not.

You would have other things in your head.