"THAT I can see." "Oh, I say--!" It came to affect the Colonel himself with a sense of privation.
"I'm not sure, even, that Charlotte will." "Oh, my dear, what Charlotte doesn't know--!" But she brooded and brooded.

"I'm not sure even that the Prince will." It seemed privation, in short, for them all.

"They'll be mystified, confounded, tormented.

But they won't know--and all their possible putting their heads together won't make them.

That," said Fanny Assingham, "will be their punishment." And she ended, ever, when she had come so far, at the same pitch.