She's helpless; she can't speak; she would be herself the first to be dished by it." And then as he seemed slow to follow: "It all comes back to her.
It all began with her.

Everything, from the first.

She introduced you to Maggie.

She made your marriage." The Prince might have had his moment of demur, but at this, after a little, as with a smile dim but deep, he came on.

"Mayn't she also be said, a good deal, to have made yours?
That was intended, I think, wasn't it?
for a kind of rectification." Charlotte, on her side, for an instant, hesitated; then she was prompter still.