126/233 "It isn't in the least, you know, for instance, that I believe she's bad. Never, never," Mrs.Assingham declared. "I don't think that of her." "Then why isn't that enough ?" Nothing was enough, Mrs.Assingham signified, but that she should develop her thought. "She doesn't deliberately intend, she doesn't consciously wish, the least complication. It's perfectly true that she thinks Maggie a dear--as who doesn't? |