"I haven't really, after all, had to think much to see that much more can be done for you than is done." Mr.Verver uttered an odd vague sound.

"Don't you think a good deal is done when you come out and talk to me this way ?" "Ah," said his daughter, smiling at him, "we make too much of that!" And then to explain: "That's good, and it's natural--but it isn't great.

We forget that we're as free as air." "Well, THAT'S great," Mr.Verver pleaded.

"Great if we act on it.

Not if we don't." She continued to smile, and he took her smile; wondering again a little by this time, however; struck more and more by an intensity in it that belied a light tone.