After all, it consisted mainly of fragmentary intimations from Miss Triscoe and of half-uttered questions which her own art now built into a coherent statement.
March could not find that the general had much resented Burnamy's clandestine visit to Carlsbad when his daughter told him of it, or that he had done more than make her promise that she would not keep up the acquaintance upon any terms unknown to him.
"Probably," Mrs.March said, "as long as he had any hopes of Mrs.
Adding, he was a little too self-conscious to be very up and down about Burnamy." "Then you think he was really serious about her ?" "Now my dear! He was so serious that I suppose he was never so completely taken aback in his life as when he met Kenby in Wurzburg and saw how she received him.

Of course, that put an end to the fight." "The fight ?" "Yes--that Mrs.Adding and Agatha were keeping up to prevent his offering himself." "Oh! And how do you know that they were keeping up the fight together ?" "How do I?
Didn't you see yourself what friends they were?
Did you tell him what Stoller had, said about Burnamy ?" "I had no chance.

I don't know that I should have done it, anyway.

It wasn't my affair." "Well, then, I think you might.

It would have been everything for that poor child; it would have completely justified her in her own eyes." "Perhaps your telling her will serve the same purpose." "Yes, I did tell her, and I am glad of it.