But I DON'T trouble my head, if you like.

'So now there!'" she laughed.
He accepted her laugh, but he kept his way.

"Well, I back poor Charlotte." "'Back' her ?" "To know what she wants." "Ah then, so do I.She does know what she wants." And Mrs.Assingham produced this quantity, at last, on the girl's behalf, as the ripe result of her late wanderings and musings.

She had groped through their talk, for the thread, and now she had got it.

"She wants to be magnificent." "She is," said the Colonel almost cynically.
"She wants"-- his wife now had it fast "to be thoroughly superior, and she's capable of that." "Of wanting to ?" "Of carrying out her idea." "And what IS her idea ?" "To see Maggie through." Bob Assingham wondered.