I've taken no stand.

I've neither reproached nor accused him.

You'll say there's a way in all that of being nasty enough." "Oh!" dropped from Fanny as if she couldn't help it.
"But I don't think--strangely enough--that he regards me as nasty.
I think that at bottom--for that IS," said the Princess, "the strangeness--he's sorry for me.

Yes, I think that, deep within, he pities me." Her companion wondered.

"For the state you've let yourself get into ?" "For not being happy when I've so much to make me so." "You've everything," said Mrs.Assingham with alacrity.