Readers may suspect that Rosalie has guessed correctly when she insinuates that Agnes has a crush on Mr. Weston. Yet Rosalie is incorrect in claiming that Agnes was visiting Nancy Brown to run into Mr. Weston, as Agnes did not know that Mr. Weston was an acquaintance of Nancy’s when she began visiting Nancy. Rather, Agnes visits Nancy out of real friendship and religious charity. Rosalie’s cynicism about Agnes’s motives contrasts with Agnes’s religious sincerity and highlights a difference in the two young women’s approach to romantic matters. When Agnes presses a primrose that Mr. Weston gave her into her Bible, meanwhile, it underscores the role that religious admiration has played in forming Agnes’s crush on Mr. Weston while emphasizing that the primroses symbolize romantic love.