"You saw nothing, Caroline; I can cover my feelings. You can never tell what an age of strange sensation I lived, during the two minutes that elapsed between the report of your name and your entrance. You can never tell how your look, mien, carriage, shook me."
"Why? Were you disappointed?"
"What will she be like? I had asked myself; and when I saw what you were like, I could have dropped."
"Mamma, why?"
"I trembled in your presence. I said, I will never own her; she shall never know me."

"Caroline, you do not know what an age of strange sensation I lived, during the two minutes that elapsed between you being announced and your entrance. Your appearance shook me."
"Why? Were you disappointed?"
"What will she be like? I had asked myself; and when I saw you, I could have dropped. I said, I will never own her; she shall never know me."
