"Not often.

Great-aunt Alison said it was the sign of a feeble mind to waste tears over fiction, but I have cried.

Do you remember the end of _The Mill on the Floss_?
Tom and Maggie have been estranged, and the flood comes, and Tom goes to save Maggie.

He is rowing when he sees the great mill machinery sweeping down on them, and he takes Maggie's hand, and calls her the name he had used when they were happy children together--'_Magsie_!'" Pamela nodded.

"Nothing appeals to you so much as family affection, Jean, girl.