"You've always been my favorite cousin, you know.

People can't _make_ themselves care for each other; it has to come in spite of them or not at all,--at least, that is what the novels say.

But you're not angry with me, are you, dear?
We will be good friends always, sha'n't we ?" persuasively.
"I wonder if we can," said Clarence, in a hopeless tone.

"It doesn't seem likely; but I don't know any more about it than you do.

It's my first offer as well as yours." Then, after a silence and a struggle, he added in a more manful tone, "We'll try for it, at least.