And in my position," she added, "I might too.

It's too absurd we shouldn't meet." "You've met, I gather," said Fanny Assingham, "to-night." "Yes--as far as that goes.

But what I mean is that I might--placed for it as we both are--go to see HIM." "And do you ?" Fanny asked with almost mistaken solemnity.
The perception of this excess made Charlotte, whether for gravity or for irony, hang fire a minute.

"I HAVE been.

But that's nothing," she said, "in itself, and I tell you of it only to show you how our situation works.