"No, not in the present. Trouble in the past, trouble in the future."
"Easy to predict. Trouble comes to all of us."
"Look here, master. Are you reading the signs or me?"
"You; and you read them in the usual way."
"Is it reading them in the usual way to tell you that you are not this little lady's father?"
"Our faces teach you that."
"Is it reading them in the usual way to tell you that this little lady's trouble in the future will come from love?"
"A dark or fair man?" asked Seth, still bantering, for the purpose of inspiring Sally with courage.
"From no man, dark or fair. From love of a woman."
"Of a woman!" exclaimed Seth, biting his lip.