"You can scarcely understand how pleasant it has been for me to camp on the edges of your fireside and feel the home-warmth a little--now and then--" "Why do you remain so aloof then ?" "I don't mean to.

But my heart is in this business of your father's--the more deeply in because of his kindness--and your mother's--and for all your sakes.

You know I can scarcely realise it--I've been with you only a month, and yet you've done so much for me--received me so simply, so cordially--that the friendship seems to be of years instead of hours." "That is the trouble," sighed Cecile; "you and I never had a chance to be frivolous; I'm no more self-conscious with you than I am with Gray.
Tell me, why was Virginia Suydam so horrid to us at first ?" Hamil reddened.

"You mustn't ask me to criticise my own kin," he said.
"No," she said, "you couldn't do that....

And Miss Suydam has been more civil recently.