[The Golden Bowl by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Golden Bowl PART THIRD 10/250
She had reached it quite by herself; no one, not even Amerigo--Amerigo least of all, who would have nothing to do with it--had given her aid.
To make it now with force for Fanny Assingham's benefit would see her further, in the direction in which the light had dawned, than any other spring she should, yet awhile, doubtless, be able to press.
The direction was that of her greater freedom--which was all in the world she had in mind.
Her opportunity had accordingly, after a few minutes of Mrs.Assingham's almost imprudently interested expression of face, positively acquired such a price for her that she may, for ourselves, while the intensity lasted, rather resemble a person holding out a small mirror at arm's length and consulting it with a special turn of the head.
It was, in a word, with this value of her chance that she was intelligently playing when she said in answer to Fanny's last question: "Don't you remember what you told me, on the occasion of something or other, the other day? That you believe there's nothing I'm afraid of? So, my dear, don't ask me!" "Mayn't I ask you," Mrs.Assingham returned, "how the case stands with your poor husband ?" "Certainly, dear.
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