I'm in love with Gerald--it is to be Gerald, isn't it ?--already.

And it will be such a pleasure to me to run in and see him as often as I can; indeed, I must look after him; I shall be his second mother, you see; and between us, we'll train him up in the way he should go, and make a good man of him." She was smiling now; but there were tears in her eyes, though Susie's were still dry.
"I can't resist you," said Susie, at last.

"I know it's wrong that you should be mixed up with one like me.

Your friends----" "Haven't any friends," said Celia, lightly.

"I mean, friends that would interfere with me; and if I had, I should not let them do so.