He had taken everything on himself--THAT was what had settled her.

She had had to wait very little more to feel, with this, how much he was taking.

The point he made was his lack of any eagerness to put time and space, on any such scale, between himself and his wife.

He wasn't so unhappy with her--far from it, and Maggie was to hold that he had grinned back, paternally, through his rather shielding glasses, in easy emphasis of this--as to be able to hint that he required the relief of absence.

Therefore, unless it was for the Prince himself--! "Oh, I don't think it would have been for Amerigo himself.