Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Dolls are safe companions.
I could have been a great many things.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.