“Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.”
“There're times when strangers are like family, and family are like strangers”
“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
“Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. [...] Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
“It takes a long time to become a person.”
“It takes a very long time to become young.”