"So placed that YOU have to arrange ?" "Certainly I have to arrange." "And the Prince also--if the effect for him is the same ?" "Really, I think, not less." "And does he arrange," Mrs.Assingham asked, "to make up HIS arrears ?" The question had risen to her lips--it was as if another morsel, on the dish, had tempted her.

The sound of it struck her own ear, immediately, as giving out more of her thought than she had as yet intended; but she quickly saw that she must follow it up, at any risk, with simplicity, and that what was simplest was the ease of boldness.

"Make them up, I mean, by coming to see YOU ?" Charlotte replied, however, without, as her friend would have phrased it, turning a hair.

She shook her head, but it was beautifully gentle.
"He never comes." "Oh!" said Fanny Assingham: with which she felt a little stupid.

"There it is.