"I am not so nice as I used to be, and I want to keep it from you," she said to the chair when she kissed it good-bye.
Was Grizel not as nice as she used to be?
How can I answer, who love her the more only?
There is one at least, Grizel, who will never desert you.
Ah, but was she?
I seem again to hear the warning voice of Grizel, and this time she is crying: "You know I was not." She knew it so well that she could say it to herself quite calmly.

She knew that, with whatever repugnance she drove those passions away, they would come back--yes, and for a space be welcomed back.

Why does she leave Gavinia's blue hearth this evening, and seek the solitary Den?
She has gone to summon them, and she knows it.

They come thick in the Den, for they know the place.

It was there that her mother was wont to walk with them.