So you see"-- and the Princess indulged again in her smile that didn't play, but that only, as might have been said, worked--"so you see there's a method in our madness." It drew Mrs.Assingham's wonder.

"And what then is the name ?" "'The reduction to its simplest expression of what we ARE doing'-- that's what he called it.

Therefore as we're doing nothing, we're doing it in the most aggravated way--which is the way he desires." With which Maggie further said: "Of course I understand." "So do I!" her visitor after a moment breathed.

"You've had to vacate the house--that was inevitable.

But at least here he doesn't funk." Our young woman accepted the expression.