YOU, from a good way back, were a matter of course--I mean your being all right; so that I needn't mind your knowing that my great interest, since then, has rather inevitably been in making sure of the same success, very much to your advantage as well, for Charlotte.

If we've worked our life, our idea really, as I say--if at any rate I can sit here and say that I've worked my share of it--it has not been what you may call least by our having put Charlotte so at her ease.

THAT has been soothing, all round; that has curled up as the biggest of the blue fumes, or whatever they are, of the opium.

Don't you see what a cropper we would have come if she hadn't settled down as she has ?" And he had concluded by turning to Maggie as for something she mightn't really have thought of.

"You, darling, in that case, I verily believe, would have been the one to hate it most." "To hate it-- ?" Maggie had wondered.
"To hate our having, with our tremendous intentions, not brought it off.
And I daresay I should have hated it for you even more than for myself." "That's not unlikely perhaps when it was for me, after all, that you did it." He had hesitated, but only a moment.