So that now, horrified and contrite at what I've done, I may work to help her out.

And Mr.Verver," she was fond of adding, "lets me off too." "Then you do believe he knows ?" It determined in her always, there, with a significant pause, a deep immersion in her thought.

"I believe he would let me off if he did know--so that I might work to help HIM out.

Or rather, really," she went on, "that I might work to help Maggie.

That would be his motive, that would be his condition, in forgiving me; just as hers, for me, in fact, her motive and her condition, are my acting to spare her father.