I never thought of it except as a thing that couldn't be." "Why couldn't it be ?" asked Kitty, smothering an agitation rising in her breast.
"Because I always knew he belonged to where we didn't, and because if he was going to be in love himself, it would be with some girl like you.
He's young enough for that, and it's natural he should get as his profit the years of youth that a young woman has yet to live." "As though it was a choice between you and me, for instance!" Mrs.Tynan started, but recovered herself.

"Yes.

If there had been any choosing, he'd not have hesitated a minute.

He'd have taken you, of course.

But he never gave either of us a thought that way." "I thought that till--till after he'd told us his story," replied Kitty boldly.
"What has happened since then ?" asked her mother, with sudden apprehension.
"Nothing has happened since.