She might have been wishing, under this renewed, this still more suggestive visitation, to keep him with her for remounting the stream of time and dipping again, for the softness of the water, into the contracted basin of the past.

"We talked about it--we talked about it; you don't remember so well as I.You too didn't know--and it was beautiful of you; like Kitty and Dotty you too thought we had a position, and were surprised when _I_ thought we ought to have told them we weren't doing for them what they supposed.

In fact," Maggie pursued, "we're not doing it now.

We're not, you see, really introducing them.

I mean not to the people they want." "Then what do you call the people with whom they're now having tea ?" It made her quite spring round.