And you have no business to have doubts yourself, sir." The two sisters were much impressed with what the rector said.

"I must really caution Giff," said Miss Deborah to Lois, "not to encourage dear Helen in thinking about things; it's very unfeminine to think, and Gifford is so clever, he doesn't stop to remember she's but a woman.

And he is greatly attached to her; dear me, he has never forgotten what might have been,"-- this in almost a whisper.
Both the sisters talked of Dr.Howe's anger as they went home.
"He's right," said Miss Deborah, who had dropped her nephew's arm, so that she might be more cautious about the mud, and who lifted her skirt on each side, as though she was about to make a curtsy,--"he's right: a woman ought to think just as her husband does; it is quite wrong in dear Helen not to, and it will bring unhappiness.

Indeed, it is a lesson to all of us," she added.
Respect was an instinct with Gifford, and he did not stop to think that it was a lesson by which Miss Deborah would have no opportunity to profit.
But he was not listening closely to the chatter of the little ladies; he was thinking of Lois's indifference.

"She even looked bored, once," he thought; "but that does not necessarily mean that she cares for Forsythe.
I will trust her.