"Do you begin, a little, to be satisfied ?" Still, however, she had to think.

"We've hurried them, you see.

Why so breathless a start ?" "Because they want to congratulate us.

They want," said Adam Verver, "to SEE our happiness." She wondered again--and this time also, for him, as publicly as possible.

"So much as that ?" "Do you think it's too much ?" She continued to think plainly.