I thought, more than once, that it was well no serious cause of division had ever come between them; or two such natures--I ought rather to express it, two such shades of the same nature--might have been harder to reconcile than the two extremest opposites in creation.

The idea did not originate in my own discernment, I am bound to confess, but in a speech of Rosa Dartle's.
She said at dinner: 'Oh, but do tell me, though, somebody, because I have been thinking about it all day, and I want to know.' 'You want to know what, Rosa ?' returned Mrs.Steerforth.

'Pray, pray, Rosa, do not be mysterious.' 'Mysterious!' she cried.

'Oh! really?
Do you consider me so ?' 'Do I constantly entreat you,' said Mrs.Steerforth, 'to speak plainly, in your own natural manner ?' 'Oh! then this is not my natural manner ?' she rejoined.

'Now you must really bear with me, because I ask for information.