And I'll tell you a surer sign still: sometimes tears came for no visible reason, and stood in her eyes.

She is in love; and it can not be with Mr.Coventry of Bollinghope; for, if she loved him, she would have nothing to brood on but her wedding-dress; and they never knit their brows, nor bedew their eyes, thinking of that; that's a smiling subject.

No, it is true love on both sides, I do believe; and that makes my woman's heart yearn.

Harry, dear, I'll make you a confession.

You have heard that a mother's love is purer and more unselfish than any other love: and so it is.