Tell Mrs.Rance, in particular, I mean, that we had been entertaining her up to then under false pretences." "Precisely--but you said she wouldn't have understood." "To which you replied that in that case you were like her.

YOU didn't understand." "No, no--but I remember how, about our having, in our benighted innocence, no position, you quite crushed me with your explanation." "Well then," said Maggie with every appearance of delight, "I'll crush you again.

I told you that you by yourself had one--there was no doubt of that.

You were different from me--you had the same one you always had." "And THEN I asked you," her father concurred, "why in that case you hadn't the same." "Then indeed you did." He had brought her face round to him before, and this held it, covering him with its kindled brightness, the result of the attested truth of their being able thus, in talk, to live again together.

"What I replied was that I had lost my position by my marriage.