"Leave them to pull through ?" "Precisely.

'Trust their own wit,' you practically said, 'to save all appearances.' Well, I've trusted it.

I HAVE left them to pull through." He hesitated.

"And your point is that they're not doing so ?" "I've left them," she went on, "but now I see how and where.

I've been leaving them all the while, without knowing it, to HER." "To the Princess ?" "And that's what I mean," Mrs.Assingham pensively pursued.