"What do you call the most ?" "Well, she did it originally--she began the vicious circle.

For that--though you make round eyes at my associating her with 'vice'-- is simply what it has been.

It's their mutual consideration, all round, that has made it the bottomless gulf; and they're really so embroiled but because, in their way, they've been so improbably GOOD." "In their way--yes!" the Colonel grinned.
"Which was, above all, Maggie's way." No flicker of his ribaldry was anything to her now.

"Maggie had in the first place to make up to her father for her having suffered herself to become--poor little dear, as she believed--so intensely married.

Then she had to make up to her husband for taking so much of the time they might otherwise have spent together to make this reparation to Mr.Verver perfect.