"And so you'll be yoursel' again, Grizel," he said, with great relief.
She had not seen that he was aiming at her until now, and it touched her.

"Am I so different, Corp ?" Not at all, he assured her delicately, but she was maybe no quite so neatly dressed as she used to be, and her hair wasna braided back so smooth, and he didna think that bonnet quite set her.
"Gavinia has been saying that to you!" "I noticed it mysel', Grizel; I'm a terrible noticher." "Perhaps you are right," she said, reflecting, after looking at herself for the first time for some days.

"But to think of your caring, Corp!" "I care most michty," he replied, with terrific earnestness.
"I must try to satisfy you, then," she said, smiling.

"But, Corp, please don't discuss me with Gavinia." This request embarrassed him, for soon again he did not know how to act.

There was Grizel's strange behaviour with the child, for instance.