Is there something in your mind that I do not understand ?' 'You must remember, Wilfrid, that this is a strange, new thing in my life.

It has come to me so suddenly, that even yet I cannot make it part of my familiar self.

It has been impossible to speak of it to others.' 'Do you think I take it as a matter of course?
Is your love less a magic gift to me?
I wake in a terror lest I have only dreamed of it; but then the very truth comes back, and shall I make myself miserable with imagining uncertainties, when there need be none ?' Emily hesitated before speaking again.
'I have told you very little about my home,' she said.

'You know that we are very poor.' She could not say it as simply as she wished; she was angry with herself to recognise how nearly her feeling was one of shame, what a long habit of reason it needed to expel the unintelligent prejudice which the world bestows at birth.
'I could almost say I am glad of it,' Wilfrid replied.

'We shall have it in our power, you and I, to help so much.' 'There are many reasons,' she continued, too much occupied with her thoughts to dwell on what he said, 'why I should have time to prepare my father and mother.