For which she struck me at the time as--for so proud a creature--almost touchingly grateful.

The thing I should never forgive her for would be her forgetting to whom it is her thanks have remained most due." "That is to Mrs.Assingham ?" She said nothing for a little--there were, after all, alternatives.
"Maggie herself of course--astonishing little Maggie." "Is Maggie then astonishing too ?"--and he gloomed out of his window.
His wife, on her side now, as they rolled, projected the same look.

"I'm not sure that I don't begin to see more in her than--dear little person as I've always thought--I ever supposed there was.

I'm not sure that, putting a good many things together, I'm not beginning to make her out rather extraordinary." "You certainly will if you can," the Colonel resignedly remarked.
Again his companion said nothing; then again she broke out.

"In fact--I do begin to feel it--Maggie's the great comfort.