Ask her herself." Mrs.Assingham denied, as we know, that her husband had a play of mind; so that she could, on her side, treat these remarks only as if they had been senseless physical gestures or nervous facial movements.

She overlooked them as from habit and kindness; yet there was no one to whom she talked so persistently of such intimate things.

"It's her friendship with Maggie that's the immense complication.

Because THAT," she audibly mused, "is so natural." "Then why can't she have come out for it ?" "She came out," Mrs.Assingham continued to meditate, "because she hates America.

There was no place for her there--she didn't fit in.