158/263 One beautiful woman--and one beautiful fortune. That's what a creature of pure virtue exposes herself to when she suffers her pure virtue, suffers her sympathy, her disinterestedness, her exquisite sense for the lives of others, to carry her too far. It's the way the Ververs have you." "It's the way the Ververs 'have' me. It's in other words the way they would be able to make such a show to each other of having me--if Maggie weren't so divine." "She lets you off ?" He never failed to insist on all this to the very end; which was how he had become so versed in what she finally thought. |