Joel mentioned the subject to him sometimes.
"Isn't my sister right in refusing ?" he asked.

"And am I not justified in upholding her in her refusal ?" "Unquestionably," replied Sylvius Hogg.

"And yet, from a mathematical point of view, your mother is a million times right.

But the science of mathematics does not govern everything in this world.

Calculation has nothing to do with the promptings of the heart." During the next two weeks they were obliged to watch Hulda very closely, for the state of her health was such as to excite serious anxiety.