[Confidence by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookConfidence CHAPTER XI 18/20
Let the parcel lie till it 's called for.
It is much safer it should n't be touched at all.
I shall assume that, metaphorically speaking, Mr. Wright, who, as you have intimated, is our earthly providence, has turned the key upon us.
I am locked up.
I shall not go out, except upon the balcony!" And with this, Angela stepped out of the long window and went and stood beside Miss Evers. Bernard was extremely amused, but he was also a good deal puzzled, and it came over him that it was not a wonder that poor Wright should not have found this young lady's disposition a perfectly decipherable page. He remained in the room with Mrs.Vivian--he stood there looking at her with his agreeably mystified smile.
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