"I like the idea of Maggie audacious and impudent--learning to be so to gloss things over.
She could--she even will, yet, I believe--learn it, for that sacred purpose, consummately, diabolically.

For from the moment the dear man should see it's all rouge--!" She paused, staring at the vision.
It imparted itself even to Bob.

"Then the fun would begin ?" As it but made her look at him hard, however, he amended the form of his inquiry.
"You mean that in that case she WILL, charming creature, be lost ?" She was silent a moment more.

"As I've told you before, she won't be lost if her father's saved.

She'll see that as salvation enough." The Colonel took it in.