Now I am no longer in the way, and I hope, so ardently, that you will fall in love, like other people.

If you never do, I shall always have the fear that I am the cause, that you lost the capacity in the days when I let you devote yourself too much to me." Oh, blind Elspeth! Now is the time to tell her, Tommy, and fill her cup of happiness to the brim.
But it is she who is speaking still, almost gaily now, yet with a full heart.

"What a time you have had with me, Tommy! I told David all about it, and what he has to look forward to, but he says he is not afraid.

And when you find someone you can love," she continued sweetly, though she had a sigh to stifle, "I hope she will be someone quite unlike me, for oh, my dear, good brother, I know you need a change." Not a word said Tommy.
She said, timidly, that she had begun to hope of late that Grizel might be the woman, and still he did not speak.

He drew Elspeth closer to him, that she might not see his face and the horror of himself that surely sat on it.