They had seen at least what she was not seeing, rich dim things under the impression of which they had retired; she having eyes at present but for the clock by which she timed her husband, or for the glass--the image perhaps would be truer--in which he was reflected to her as HE timed the pair in the country.

The accession of their friends from Cadogan Place contributed to all their intermissions, at any rate, a certain effect of resonance; an effect especially marked by the upshot of a prompt exchange of inquiries between Mrs.Assingham and the Princess.

It was noted, on the occasion of that anxious lady's last approach to her young friend at Fawns, that her sympathy had ventured, after much accepted privation, again to become inquisitive, and it had perhaps never so yielded to that need as on this question of the present odd "line" of the distinguished eccentrics.
"You mean to say really that you're going to stick here ?" And then before Maggie could answer: "What on earth will you do with your evenings ?" Maggie waited a moment--Maggie could still tentatively smile.

"When people learn we're here--and of course the papers will be full of it!--they'll flock back in their hundreds, from wherever they are, to catch us.

You see you and the Colonel have yourselves done it.