One saw them understand and exchange looks, then one saw them lose heart and decide to move.

For what they had to take home was that it's she who's the real thing." "Ah, it's she who's the real thing ?" As HE had not hitherto taken it home as completely as the Miss Lutches and Mrs.Rance, so, doubtless, he had now, a little, appeared to offer submission in his appeal.

"I see, I see"-- he could at least simply take it home now; yet as not without wanting, at the same time, to be sure of what the real thing was.

"And what would it be--a--definitely that you understand by that ?" She had only for an instant not found it easy to say.

"Why, exactly what those women themselves want to be, and what her effect on them is to make them recognise that they never will." "Oh--of course never ?" It not only remained and abode with them, it positively developed and deepened, after this talk, that the luxurious side of his personal existence was now again furnished, socially speaking, with the thing classed and stamped as "real"-- just as he had been able to think of it as not otherwise enriched in consequence of his daughter's marriage.