"Perhaps her mind was abstracted."
"It might have been so. Mine would have been very abstracted, indeed, to keep me from a more cordial recognition of a friend."
"How would it do to call and see her?"
"I have been thinking of that. But my feelings naturally oppose it. I am not conscious of having done any thing to merit a withdrawal of the friendly sentiments she has held towards me; still, if she wishes to withdraw them, my pride says, let her do so."
"But pride, you know, is not always the best adviser."
"No. Perhaps the less regard we pay to its promptings, the better."
"I think so."
"It is rather awkward to go to a person and ask why you have been treated coldly."
"I know it is. But in a choice of evils, is it not always wisest to choose the least?"
"But is any one's bad opinion of you, if it be not correctly formed, an evil?"