Though he wears his common clothes with a nameless grace that betrays his true breeding at every step, yet he is not tall, dark, and melancholy, as my ideal hero would be if I were as great a fool as girls of my age usually are.

If I am in love, I have sense enough not to let my love blind my judgment." She did not tell anyone of her new interest in life.

Strongest in that student community, she had used her power with good-nature enough to win the popularity of a school leader, and occasionally with unscrupulousness enough to secure the privileges of a school bully.
Popularity and privilege, however, only satisfied her when she was in the mood for them.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love.
These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

Agatha knew by experience that though a weak woman cannot understand why her stronger sister should wish to lean upon her, she may triumph in the fact without understanding it, and give chaff instead of consolation.