"Ah, I don't say that they'd necessarily tell me that they ARE over the traces." "They'll necessarily, whatever happens, hold their tongues, I hope, and I'm talking of them now as I take them for myself only.

THAT'S enough for me--it's all I have to regard." With which, after an instant, "They're wonderful," said Fanny Assingham.
"Indeed," her husband concurred, "I really think they are." "You'd think it still more if you knew.

But you don't know--because you don't see.

Their situation"-- this was what he didn't see--"is too extraordinary." "'Too' ?" He was willing to try.
"Too extraordinary to be believed, I mean, if one didn't see.

But just that, in a way, is what saves them.