"Do you think Maggie so blind ?" "The question isn't of what I think.

The question's of the conviction that guides the Prince and Charlotte--who have better opportunities than I for judging." The Colonel again wondered.

"Are you so very sure their opportunities are better ?" "Well," his wife asked, "what is their whole so extraordinary situation, their extraordinary relation, but an opportunity ?" "Ah, my dear, you have that opportunity--of their extraordinary situation and relation--as much as they." "With the difference, darling," she returned with some spirit, "that neither of those matters are, if you please, mine.

I see the boat they're in, but I'm not, thank God, in it myself.

To-day, however," Mrs.
Assingham added, "to-day in Eaton Square I did see." "Well then, what ?" But she mused over it still.