"Yes," she said the next moment, "that's why Amerigo stays." "Let alone it's why Charlotte goes." that Mrs.Assingham, and emboldened, smiled "So he knows-- ?" But Maggie hung back.

"Amerigo-- ?" After which, however, she blushed--to her companion's recognition.
"Your father.

He knows what YOU know?
I mean," Fanny faltered--"well, how much does he know ?" Maggie's silence and Maggie's eyes had in fact arrested the push of the question--which, for a decent consistency, she couldn't yet quite abandon.

"What I should rather say is does he know how much ?" She found it still awkward.

"How much, I mean, they did.