"You said just now that he would by this time be back with Charlotte 'if they HAVE arrived.' You think it then possible that they really won't have returned ?" His companion exhibited to view, for the idea, a sense of her responsibility; but this was insufficient, clearly, to keep her from entertaining it.

"I think there's nothing they're not now capable of--in their so intense good faith." "Good faith ?"--he echoed the words, which had in fact something of an odd ring, critically.
"Their false position.

It comes to the same thing." And she bore down, with her decision, the superficial lack of sequence.

"They may very possibly, for a demonstration--as I see them--not have come back." He wondered, visibly, at this, how she did see them.

"May have bolted somewhere together ?" "May have stayed over at Matcham itself till tomorrow.