Miss Reade says she always loves to see him sitting there because it gives her such a deep and lasting sense of the beauty and strength of love which can thus outlive time and death.

And sometimes, she says, it gives her a little eerie feeling, too, as if her Aunt Una were really sitting there beside him, keeping tryst, although she has been in her grave for forty years." "It would be real romantic to die young and have your lover make a pilgrimage to your garden every year," reflected Sara Ray.
"It would be more comfortable to go on living and get married to him," said Felicity.

"Mother says all those sentimental ideas are bosh and I expect they are.

It's a wonder Beautiful Alice hasn't a beau herself.
She is so pretty and lady-like." "The Carlisle fellows all say she is too stuck up," said Dan.
"There's nobody in Carlisle half good enough for her," cried the Story Girl, "except--ex-cept--" "Except who ?" asked Felix.
"Never mind," said the Story Girl mysteriously..