_I_ know," the Princess declared, "where he's magnificent." And she rested a minute on that.

She ended, however, as she had begun.

"We're not, all the same, committed to anything stupid.
If we ought to be grander, as Fanny thinks, we CAN be grander.

There's nothing to prevent." "Is it a strict moral obligation ?" Adam Verver inquired.
"No--it's for the amusement." "For whose?
For Fanny's own ?" "For everyone's--though I dare say Fanny's would be a large part." She hesitated; she had now, it might have appeared, something more to bring out, which she finally produced.

"For yours in particular, say--if you go into the question." She even bravely followed it up.