You two can hardly be of two minds in anything!" "That was a curious speech of Letty's yesterday! You heard her say, did you not, that, if everybody was to be so very good in heaven, she was afraid it would be rather dull ?" "We mustn't make too much of what Letty says, either when she's merry or when she's miserable.

She speaks both times only out of half-way down." "Yes, yes! I wasn't meaning to find any fault with her; I was only wishing to hear what you would say.

For nobody can make a story without somebody wicked enough to set things wrong in it, and then all the work lies in setting them right again, and, as soon as they are set right, then the story stops." "There's no thing of the sort in music, Joseph, and that makes one happy enough." "Yes, there is, Mary.

There's strife and difference and compensation and atonement and reconciliation." "But there's nothing wicked." "No, that there is not." "Well!" said Mary, "perhaps it may only be because we know so little about good, that it seems to us not enough.

We know only the beginnings and the fightings, and so write and talk only about them.