"Then you intend not to speak to him-- ?" Maggie waited.

"To 'speak'-- ?" "Well, about your having it and about what you consider that it represents." "Oh, I don't know that I shall speak--if he doesn't.

But his keeping away from me because of that--what will that be but to speak?
He can't say or do more.

It won't be for me to speak," Maggie added in a different tone, one of the tones that had already so penetrated her guest.

"It will be for me to listen." Mrs.Assingham turned it over.