64/166 What does that show, after all," she asked, "but that you do really, well within, feel a want? "But it shows also, I think, that charming women are, in the kind of life we're leading now, numerous and formidable." Maggie entertained for a moment the proposition; under cover of which, however, she passed quickly from the general to the particular. "Do you feel Mrs.Rance to be charming ?" "Well, I feel her to be formidable. When they cast a spell it comes to the same thing. I think she'd do anything." "Oh well, I'd help you," the Princess said with decision, "as against HER--if that's all you require. |