Am I to bar my door against her when she has given me no offence?
Am I to forget that she did me great service, when I sorely needed such services?
Can I tell her to her face that she is all these things that you say of her, and that therefore I will for the future dispense with her company?
Or do you believe that people in this world associate only with those they love and esteem ?" "I would not have one for my intimate friend whom I did not love and esteem." "But, Harry, suppose that no one loved and esteemed you; that you had no home down at Clavering with a father that admires you and a mother that worships you; no sisters that think you to be almost perfect, no comrades with whom you can work with mutual regard and emulation, no self-confidence, no high hopes of your own, no power of choosing companions whom you can esteem and love--suppose with you it was Sophie Gordeloup or none--how would it be with you then ?" His heart must have been made of stone if this had not melted it.

He got up, and coming round to her, stood over her.

"Julia," he said, "it is not so with you." "But it is so with Julia," she said.

"That is the truth.

How am I better than she, and why should I not associate with her ?" "Better than she! As women you are poles asunder." "But as dragons," she said, smiling, "we come together." "Do you mean that you have no one to love you ?" "Yes, Harry; that is just what I do mean.