Is it anything for which I'm in any degree responsible ?" Maggie summoned all her powers.

"What in the world SHOULD it be ?" "Ah, that's not for me to imagine, and I should be very sorry to have to try to say! I'm aware of no point whatever at which I may have failed you," said Charlotte; "nor of any at which I may have failed any one in whom I can suppose you sufficiently interested to care.

If I've been guilty of some fault I've committed it all unconsciously, and am only anxious to hear from you honestly about it.

But if I've been mistaken as to what I speak of--the difference, more and more marked, as I've thought, in all your manner to me--why, obviously, so much the better.

No form of correction received from you could give me greater satisfaction." She spoke, it struck her companion, with rising, with extraordinary ease; as if hearing herself say it all, besides seeing the way it was listened to, helped her from point to point.