I do love you very dearly, very dearly, indeed.

I would go to you in any trouble, exactly as I would go to a brother." "And must that be all, Bell ?" "Is not that all the sweetest love that can be felt?
But you must not think me ungrateful, or proud.

I know well that you are--are proposing to do for me much more than I deserve.

Any girl might be proud of such an offer.

But, dear Bernard--" "Bell, before you give me a final answer, sleep upon this and talk it over with your mother.