"I am sorry, because you are wishing for what you cannot have."
"How do you know that? You cannot tell what may happen."
"Madge, a man like Mr. Dillwyn would never think of a girl like you or me."
"I am not wanting him to think of me," said Madge rather hotly. "But,
Lois, if you come to that, I think I—and you—are fit for anybody."
"Yes," said Lois quietly. "I think so too. But they do not take the same view. And if they did, Madge, we could not think of them."
"Why not?—if they did. I do not hold quite such extreme rules as you and grandmother do."
"And the Bible."—
"Other people do not think the Bible is so strict."
"You know what the words are, Madge."
"I don't know what the words mean."