"I never meant to presume; but her indifference had exasperated me." "Why should you be exasperated about other people's affairs ?" he said.
"And why interfere at all ?" "Being interested is not the same as being interfering," she replied quickly.
"It is difficult to be the one without being the other," he said.

"It requires a genius.

There is a genius for being sympathetic as well as a genius for being good.

And geniuses are few." "But I knew one," Bernardine said.

"There was a friend to whom in the first days of my trouble I turned for sympathy.