92/166 The play of vision was at all events so rooted in him that he could receive impressions of sense even while positively thinking. He was positively thinking while Maggie stood there, and it led for him to yet another question--which in its turn led to others still. "Do you regard the condition as hers then that you spoke of a minute ago ?" "The condition-- ?" "Why that of having loved so intensely that she's, as you say, 'beyond everything' ?" Maggie had scarcely to reflect--her answer was so prompt. |