"If anybody else were to say that to me, Aunt Hannah, I would be
very angry."

"For which you would be a very foolish girl. But it is generally the
way that good advice is taken, it being an article of which none
think they stand in need."

"But what in the world can there be for James and I to have
differences about? I am sure that I love him most truly; and I am
sure he loves me as fondly as I love him. In mutual love there can
be no strife--no emulation, except in the performance of good
offices. Indeed, aunt, I think you are far too serious."

"Over the bright sky bending above you, my dear niece, I would not,
for the world, bring a cloud even as light as the filmy, almost
viewless gossamer. But I know that clouds must hide its clear, calm,
passionless blue, either earlier or later in life. And what I say
now, is with the hope of giving you the prescience required to avoid
some of the storms that may threaten to break upon your head."

"Neither cloud nor storm will ever come from that quarter of the sky
from which you seem to apprehend danger."

"Not if both you and James learn to bear and forbear in your conduct
toward each other."

"We cannot act otherwise."

"Then there will be no danger."