About the time we started, he let her see plainly that all he wanted of her was to take care of me; she was pretty and smart, so it made her furious.
She was pampered in everything, as no maid I ever had before.

John is young yet, and I think he is very handsome, and he wouldn't pay any attention to her.

You see when other boys were going to school and getting acquainted with girls by association, even when he was a little bit of a fellow in knee breeches, I had to let him sell papers, and then he got into a shop, and he invented a little thing, and then a bigger, and bigger yet, and then he went into stocks and things, and he doesn't know anything about girls, only about sick old women like me.
He never saw what Susette was up to.

You do believe that I wasn't ugly to her, don't you ?" "You COULDN'T be ugly if you tried," said Kate.
The woman suddenly began to sob again, this time slowly, as if her forces were almost spent.

She looked to Kate for the sympathy she craved and for the first time really saw her closely.
"Why, you dear girl," she cried.