If I can do you no good, I may as well do myself some." "I hope you won't mention me at all," she replied.
One comfort (and almost the only one arising from Edward's visit) was, that she could now often be spared to go up to the thorn-tree, and calm down her anxiety, and bring all discords into peace, under the sweet influences of nature.

Mrs.Buxton had tried to teach her the force of the lovely truth, that the "melodies of the everlasting chime" may abide in the hearts of those who ply their daily task in towns, and crowded populous places; and that solitude is not needed by the faithful for them to feel the immediate presence of God; nor utter stillness of human sound necessary, before they can hear the music of His angels' footsteps; but, as yet, her soul was a young disciple; and she felt it easier to speak to Him, and come to Him for help, sitting lonely, with wild moors swelling and darkening around her, and not a creature in sight but the white specks of distant sheep, and the birds that shun the haunts of men, floating in the still mid-air.
She sometimes longed to go to Mr.Buxton and tell him how much she could sympathize with him, if his dislike to her engagement arose from thinking her unworthy of his son.

Frank's character seemed to her grand in its promise.

With vehement impulses and natural gifts, craving worthy employment, his will sat supreme over all, like a young emperor calmly seated on his throne, whose fiery generals and wise counsellors stand alike ready to obey him.

But if marriage were to be made by due measurement and balance of character, and if others, with their scales, were to be the judges, what would become of all the beautiful services rendered by the loyalty of true love?
Where would be the raising up of the weak by the strong?
or the patient endurance?
or the gracious trust of her: "Whose faith is fixt and cannot move; She darkly feels him great and wise, She dwells on him with faithful eyes, 'I cannot understand: I love.'" Edward's manners and conduct caused her more real anxiety than anything else.