I never spoke it more, at all events, than when I put it to you, that evening, that Maggie was the person in the world to whom a wrong thing could least be communicated.

It was as if her imagination had been closed to it, her sense altogether sealed, That therefore," Fanny continued, "is what will now HAVE to happen.

Her sense will have to open." "I see." He nodded.

"To the wrong." He nodded again, almost cheerfully--as if he had been keeping the peace with a baby or a lunatic.

"To the very, very wrong." But his wife's spirit, after its effort of wing, was able to remain higher.