You ain't never worn a veil in your life.

I can't see what has got into you," persisted Hannah.
Sylvia edged away from her as soon as she could, and glided down the road towards her own house swiftly, although her knees trembled.
Sylvia's knees always trembled when she came out of church, after she had sat an hour and a half opposite Richard Alger.

To-day they felt weaker than ever, after her encounter with Hannah.

Nobody knew the terror Sylvia had of her sister's discovering how she had called in Barnabas Thayer, and in a manner unveiled her maiden heart to him.
When Charlotte had come in that night after Barnabas had gone, and discovered her crying on the sofa, she had jumped up and confronted her with a fierce instinct of concealment.
"There ain't nothin' new the matter," she said, in response to Charlotte's question; "I was thinkin' about mother; I'm apt to when it comes dusk." It was the first deliberate lie that Sylvia Crane had ever told in her life.

She reflected upon it after Charlotte had gone, and reflected also with fierce hardihood that she would lie again were it necessary.