'That is the comfort I have when anybody shews me kindness,' said Dr. Maryland, with a wonderful, simple, bright smile, rising as he spoke. 'I am one of the Lord's poor people; so I am never troubled about the returns. Come, my childrenwe have four miles in the snow before us.'
CHAPTER XXIV.
ONE AND ONE ARE TWO.
'They will never agree, those two!' said Prudentia Coles, the next morning at breakfast.
'They will agree perfectly!' said Primrose.
Good Dr. Maryland lifted his eyebrows in astonishment at both utterances.
'Their ways were too different,' said Mrs. Coles.
'Their ways will be alike,' said Prim.
'Of course, their ways will be one,' said the doctor. But he was very old-fashioned.
And people do not change their natures because they happen to love one another, nor even because they happen to be married. Still less!