So you can be easy." "Oh, I think we're easy," the Prince returned.

"Be sure to say, at any rate, that we're bearing up." "You're bearing up--good.

And Charlotte returns to dinner ?" "To dinner.

We're not likely, I think, to make another night away." "Well then, I wish you at least a pleasant day," "Oh," he laughed as they separated, "we shall do our best for it!"-- after which, in due course, with the announcement of their conveyance, the Assinghams rolled off.
XXII It was quite, for the Prince, after this, as if the view had further cleared; so that the half-hour during which he strolled on the terrace and smoked--the day being lovely--overflowed with the plenitude of its particular quality.

Its general brightness was composed, doubtless, of many elements, but what shone out of it as if the whole place and time had been a great picture, from the hand of genius, presented to him as a prime ornament for his collection and all varnished and framed to hang up--what marked it especially for the highest appreciation was his extraordinarily unchallenged, his absolutely appointed and enhanced possession of it.