She was just herself their poison, in the sense of mortally disagreeing with them--but she didn't know it." "Ah, she didn't know it ?" Mr.Verver had asked with interest.
"Well, I THINK she didn't"-- Mrs.Assingham had to admit that she hadn't pressingly sounded her.

"I don't pretend to be sure, in every connection, of what Charlotte knows.

She doesn't, certainly, like to make people suffer--not, in general, as is the case with so many of us, even other women: she likes much rather to put them at their ease with her.

She likes, that is--as all pleasant people do--to be liked." "Ah, she likes to be liked ?" her companion had gone on.
"She did, at the same time, no doubt, want to help us--to put us at our ease.

That is she wanted to put you--and to put Maggie about you.