"It was the only thing." Her friend appeared to wonder.

"From the moment you and your father backed out ?" "Oh, I don't mean go for those people; I mean go for us.

For father and me," Maggie went on.

"Because now they know." "They 'know' ?" Fanny Assingham quavered.
"That I've been for some time past taking more notice.

Notice of the queer things in our life." Maggie saw her companion for an instant on the point of asking her what these queer things might be; but Mrs.Assingham had the next minute brushed by that ambiguous opening and taken, as she evidently felt, a better one.