"Then it all depends on the bowl?
I mean your future does?
For that's what it comes to, I judge." "What it comes to," Maggie presently returned, "is what that thing has put me, so almost miraculously, in the way of learning: how far they had originally gone together.

If there was so much between them before, there can't--with all the other appearances--not be a great deal more now." And she went on and on; she steadily made her points.

"If such things were already then between them they make all the difference for possible doubt of what may have been between them since.

If there had been nothing before there might be explanations.

But it makes to-day too much to explain.