"Yes."
"Good, as far as it goes. Flora is an excellent girl, and wise beyond her years."
"Can we ask a better companion for our child than one with pure feelings and true thoughts?"
"No. But I am afraid Flora has not the power to bring her out of herself. She is so sedate."
"She does not lack cheerfulness of spirit, Edward."
"Perpetual cheerfulness is too passive."
"Her laugh, at times, is delicious," said Mrs. Markland, "going to your heart like a strain of music, warming it like a golden sunbeam. Flora's character is by no means a passive one, but rather the reverse."
"She is usually very quiet when I see her," replied Markland.
"This arises from an instinctive deference to those who are older."
"Fanny is strongly attached to her, I think."