You are so given to idealisation, and you may find yourself disappointed if you trust to depths that are not there.

As to friendship, don't forget that she is, as yet, the merest acquaintance.' 'One may feel nearer some people in a week than to others after years.' 'As to being near in a week--she doesn't feel near _you_; that is all I mean.

Don't cast your pearls too lavishly.' Althea made no reply, but under her air of unruffled calm, Aunt Julia's shaft rankled.
She found herself that afternoon, when she and Helen were alone at tea, sounding her, probing her, for reassuring symptoms of warmth or affection.

'I so hope that we may keep really in touch with one another,' she said.

'I couldn't bear not to keep in touch with you, Helen.' Helen looked at her with the look, vague, kind, and a little puzzled, that seemed to plant Aunt Julia's shaft anew.