Everything that has come up for them has come up, in an extraordinary manner, without my having by a sound or a sign given myself away--so that it's all as wonderful as you may conceive.

They move at any rate among the dangers I speak of--between that of their doing too much and that of their not having any longer the confidence, or the nerve, or whatever you may call it, to do enough." Her tone, by this time, might have shown a strangeness to match her smile; which was still more marked as she wound up.

"And that's how I make them do what I like!" It had an effect on Mrs.Assingham, who rose with the deliberation that, from point to point, marked the widening of her grasp.

"My dear child, you're amazing." "Amazing-- ?" "You're terrible." Maggie thoughtfully shook her head.

"No; I'm not terrible, and you don't think me so.