To 'get him back' she must have lost him, and to have lost him she must have had him." With which Fanny shook her head.
"What I take her to be waking up to is the truth that, all the while, she really HASN'T had him.

Never." "Ah, my dear--!" the poor Colonel panted.
"Never!" his wife repeated.

And she went on without pity.

"Do you remember what I said to you long ago--that evening, just before their marriage, when Charlotte had so suddenly turned up ?" The smile with which he met this appeal was not, it was to be feared, robust.

"What haven't you, love, said in your time ?" "So many things, no doubt, that they make a chance for my having once or twice spoken the truth.