Her thought, however, just at present, had more than one face--had a series that it successively presented.

These were indeed the possibilities involved in the adventure of her concerning herself for the quantity of compensation that Mrs.Verver might still look to.

There was always the possibility that she WAS, after all, sufficiently to get at him--there was in fact that of her having again and again done so.

Against this stood nothing but Fanny Assingham's apparent belief in her privation--more mercilessly imposed, or more hopelessly felt, in the actual relation of the parties; over and beyond everything that, from more than three months back, of course, had fostered in the Princess a like conviction.
These assumptions might certainly be baseless--inasmuch as there were hours and hours of Amerigo's time that there was no habit, no pretence of his accounting for; inasmuch too as Charlotte, inevitably, had had more than once, to the undisguised knowledge of the pair in Portland Place, been obliged to come up to Eaton Square, whence so many of her personal possessions were in course of removal.

She didn't come to Portland Place--didn't even come to ask for luncheon on two separate occasions when it reached the consciousness of the household there that she was spending the day in London.