I'm placed--I can't imagine anyone MORE placed.

There I AM!" Fanny had indeed never listened to emphasis more firmly applied, and it brought into her own eyes, though she had reasons for striving to keep them from betrayals, a sort of anxiety of intelligence.

"I dare say--but your statement of your position, however you see it, isn't an answer to my inquiry.

It seems to me, at the same time, I confess," Mrs.Assingham added, "to give but the more reason for it.

You speak of our being 'frank.' How can we possibly be anything else?
If Maggie has gone off through finding herself too distressed to stay, and if she's willing to leave you and her husband to show here without her, aren't the grounds of her preoccupation more or less discussable ?" "If they're not," Charlotte replied, "it's only from their being, in a way, too evident.