The net result of all of which, moreover, was that the young man had no wish to see his value diminish.

He himself, after all, had not fixed it--the "figure" was a conception all of Mr.Verver's own.
Certainly, however, everything must be kept up to it; never so much as to-night had the Prince felt this.

He would have been uncomfortable, as these quiet expressions passed, had the case not been guaranteed for him by the intensity of his accord with Charlotte.

It was impossible that he should not now and again meet Charlotte's eyes, as it was also visible that she too now and again met her husband's.

For her as well, in all his pulses, he felt the conveyed impression.