239/250 He hadn't worked them out in detail--any more than I had, heaven pity me!--and the queerness has been, exactly, in the detail. This, for him, is what it was to have married Charlotte. And they both," she neatly wound up, "'help.'" "'Both'-- ?" "I mean that if Maggie, always in the breach, makes it seem to him all so flourishingly to fit, Charlotte does her part not less. Charlotte," Fanny declared, "works like a horse." So there it all was, and her husband looked at her a minute across it. |