He declares that he has finished with politics, and I never knew a man so thoroughly in earnest." Borrowdean smiled.
"No man has ever finished with politics!" "A platitude," she declared.

"As for Mannering, well, for the first few weeks I felt about him as I suppose you do now.

I know him better now, and I have changed my mind.

He is unique, absolutely unique! Do you think that I could have existed here for nearly two months without him ?" "May I inquire," Borrowdean asked, blandly, "how much longer you intend to exist here with him ?" She shrugged her shoulders.
"All my days--perhaps! He and this place together are an anchorage.

Look at me! Am I not a different woman?
I know you too well, my dear Leslie, to attempt your conversion, but I can assure you that I am--very nearly in earnest!" "You interest me amazingly," he remarked, smiling.