Everything's right," he went on, "and everything will stay so." "Then that's all I say." But he worked it out, for the deeper satisfaction, even to superfluous lucidity.

"We're happy, and they're happy.

What more does the position admit of?
What more need Fanny Assingham want ?" "Ah, my dear," said Charlotte, "it's not I who say that she need want anything.

I only say that she's FIXED, that she must stand exactly where everything has, by her own act, placed her.

It's you who have seemed haunted with the possibility, for her, of some injurious alternative, something or other we must be prepared for." And she had, with her high reasoning, a strange cold smile.