"And is it for that you did it?
I mean gave up the visit." "It's for that I did it.

To leave them to themselves--as they less and less want, or at any rate less and less venture to appear to want, to be left.

As they had for so long arranged things," the Princess went on, "you see they sometimes have to be." And then, as if baffled by the lucidity of this, Mrs.Assingham for a little said nothing: "Now do you think I'm modest ?" With time, however; Fanny could brilliantly think anything that would serve.

"I think you're wrong.

That, my dear, is my answer to your question.