'Only it amuses me that any one should think me a serious matter.' 'Don't be cynical, Miss Buchanan; that's what's the trouble with you; you take refuge in cynicism rather than in thought.

If you'd think about it and not try to evade it, you'd know perfectly well that there is nothing so serious to you in all the world as your own life.' 'I don't know,' said Helen, after a little pause, sobered, though still amused.

'I don't know that I feel anything very serious, except all the unpleasant things that happen, or the pleasant things that don't.' 'Well, what's more serious than suffering ?' Mr.Kane inquired, and as she could really find no answer to this he went on: 'And you ought to go further; you ought to be able to take every human being seriously.' 'Do you do that ?' Helen asked.
'Any one who thinks must do it; it's all a question of thinking things out.

Now I've thought a good deal about you, Miss Buchanan,' Franklin continued, 'and I take you very seriously, very seriously indeed.

I feel that you are very much above the average in capacity.