People think we're good or generous because we're giving a home to an orphan, and giving her a family but the truth is she'll be giving us a family.

Otherwise, when you’re older you’ll be all alone, ’ she replied: ‘Yes, and I’ll look back at all the fun I had.’

Yuck! Stop acting like that. That's why even Mom says you will end up a lonely guy.

Isobel had never really been single, she’d always had someone to go places with and felt very odd about suddenly having to do everything on her own.

How could I possibly prefer the spoilt pet of a wealthy family, and she would hate her governess as a nuisance, to a lonely little orphan, who leans towards her as a friend?