"So you adore her—out of perversity? Well, I take greatly after my mother," said Ralph.
"I don＇t believe you do at all. You wish people to like you, and you try to make them do it."
"Good heavens, how you see through one!" he cried with a dismay that was not altogether jocular.
"But I like you all the same," his cousin went on."The way to clinch the matter will be to show me the ghost."
Ralph shook his head sadly. "I might show it to you,but you＇d never see it. The privilege isn＇t given to every one; it＇s not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You must have suffered 昀rst, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it. I saw it long ago," said Ralph.