"For the truth as from him to her ?" "From him to any one." Mrs.Assingham's face lighted.

"He'll simply, he'll insistently have lied ?" Maggie brought it out roundly.

"He'll simply, he'll insistently have lied." It held again her companion, who next, however, with a single movement, throwing herself on her neck, overflowed.

"Oh, if you knew how you help me!" Maggie had liked her to understand, so far as this was possible; but had not been slow to see afterwards how the possibility was limited, when one came to think, by mysteries she was not to sound.

This inability in her was indeed not remarkable, inasmuch as the Princess herself, as we have seen, was only now in a position to boast of touching bottom.
Maggie lived, inwardly, in a consciousness that she could but partly open even to so good a friend, and her own visitation of the fuller expanse of which was, for that matter, still going on.