I put him in possession of the difference; the difference made, about me, by the fact that I hadn't been, after all--though with a wonderful chance, I admitted, helping me--too stupid to have arrived at knowledge.

He had to see that I'm changed for him--quite changed from the idea of me that he had so long been going on with.

It became a question then of his really taking in the change--and what I now see is that he is doing so." Fanny followed as she could.

"Which he shows by letting you, as you say, alone ?" Maggie looked at her a minute.

"And by letting her." Mrs.Assingham did what she might to embrace it--checked a little, however, by a thought that was the nearest approach she could have, in this almost too large air, to an inspiration.