"If I were not sure you only said that for argument I should feel very badly," his wife replied. "But you know you love her."
"Do you know I love you?" the young man said,jocosely, to Isabel a little later, while he brushed his hat.
"I'm sure I don't care whether you do or not!"exclaimed the girl; whose voice and smile, however,were less haughty than her words.
"Oh, she feels so grand since Mrs. Touchett's visit,"said her sister.
But Isabel challenged this assertion with a good deal of seriousness. "You must not say that, Lily. I don't feel grand at all."