You can keep that also to yourself." On his speaking, however, as if his transmitting the hint were a real question, she appeared to consider--and almost as if for good taste--that the joke had gone far enough.

"It doesn't matter.

Unless he speaks of his own movement--! And why should it be," she asked, "a thing that WOULD occur to him ?" "I really think," Mr.Verver concurred, "that it naturally wouldn't.

HE doesn't know you're morbid." She just wondered--but she agreed.

"No--he hasn't yet found it out.
Perhaps he will, but he hasn't yet; and I'm willing to give him meanwhile the benefit of the doubt." So with this the situation, to her view, would appear to have cleared had she not too quickly had one of her restless relapses.