Nothing is my 'whole' idea--for I felt to-day, as I tell you, that there's so much in the air." "Oh, in the air--!" the Colonel dryly breathed.
"Well, what's in the air always HAS--hasn't it ?--to come down to the earth.

And Maggie," Mrs.Assingham continued, "is a very curious little person.

Since I was 'in,' this afternoon, for seeing more than I had ever done--well, I felt THAT too, for some reason, as I hadn't yet felt it." "For 'some' reason?
For what reason ?" And then, as his wife at first said nothing: "Did she give any sign?
Was she in any way different ?" "She's always so different from anyone else in the world that it's hard to say when she's different from herself.

But she has made me," said Fanny after an instant, "think of her differently.

She drove me home." "Home here ?" "First to Portland Place--on her leaving her father: since she does, once in a while, leave him.