"You can begin now, then, to do better."
"In thinking of you first, you mean? O yes, I do. I will. But you think of people you do not care for."
"No, I don't. Never. You cannot think of people you do not care for, in the way you mean. They will not come into your head."
"How can one do then, Basil? How do you do?"
"Obviously, the only way is to care for them."
"Who is sick in Pleasant Valley?"
"Nobody you know. One is an old man who lives back on the mountain; the other is a woman near Blackberry hill."
"Blackberry hill? do you go there?"
"Now and then."
"But those are dreadful people there."