"Do you know you're a little dry ?" "Yes; I can't help it.

Mr.Rosier has also talked to me." "In that there's some reason.

You're so near the child." "Ah," said Isabel, "for all the comfort I've given him! If you think me dry, I wonder what HE thinks." "I believe he thinks you can do more than you have done." "I can do nothing." "You can do more at least than I.I don't know what mysterious connection he may have discovered between me and Pansy; but he came to me from the first, as if I held his fortune in my hand.

Now he keeps coming back, to spur me up, to know what hope there is, to pour out his feelings." "He's very much in love," said Isabel.
"Very much--for him." "Very much for Pansy, you might say as well." Madame Merle dropped her eyes a moment.

"Don't you think she's attractive ?" "The dearest little person possible--but very limited." "She ought to be all the easier for Mr.Rosier to love.