Or we might even," she said quite gaily, "go together down to Fawns." "You could be so very content without me ?" the Prince presently inquired.
"Yes, my own dear--if you could be content for a while with father.

That would keep me up.

I might, for the time," she went on, "go to stay there with Charlotte; or, better still, she might come to Portland Place." "Oho!" said the Prince with cheerful vagueness.
"I should feel, you see," she continued, "that the two of us were showing the same sort of kindness." Amerigo thought.

"The two of us?
Charlotte and I ?" Maggie again hesitated.

"You and I, darling." "I see, I see"-- he promptly took it in.