Is there something wicked in my nature?
I do believe she feels in the same way towards me.
Yes; I dare say it's imagination, but it's as bad as reality for all that.

Oh, I am sure you are right--she does want to keep Ovid out of my way!" "Because she doesn't like you ?" said Miss Minerva.

"Is that the only reason you can think of ?" "What other reason can there be ?" The governess summoned her utmost power of self-restraint.

She needed it, even to speak of the bare possibility of Carmina's marriage to Ovid, as if it was only a matter of speculative interest to herself.
"Some people object to marriages between cousins," she said.

"You are cousins.