It's when one sees people who always ARE natural making little pale, pathetic, blinking efforts for it--then it is that one knows something's the matter.

I can't describe my impression--you would have had it for yourself.

And the only thing that ever CAN be the matter with Maggie is that.

By 'that' I mean her beginning to doubt.

To doubt, for the first time," Mrs.Assingham wound up, "of her wonderful little judgment of her wonderful little world." It was impressive, Fanny's vision, and the Colonel, as if himself agitated by it, took another turn of prowling.