I believed in her." "And _I_ believed in her," said Maggie.
Mrs.Assingham waited again; but she presently pushed on.

"She believed then in herself." "Ah ?" Maggie murmured.
Something exquisite, faintly eager, in the prompt simplicity of it, supported her friend further.

"And the Prince believed.

His belief was real.

Just as he believed in himself." Maggie spent a minute in taking it from her.