I wanted, as I still want," she richly declared, "to help every one." It set Maggie once more in movement--movement which, however, spent itself again with a quick emphasis.

"Then it's a good deal my fault--if everything really began so well ?" Fanny Assingham met it as she could.

"You've been only too perfect.
You've thought only too much." But the Princess had already caught at the words.

"Yes--I've thought only too much!" Yet she appeared to continue, for the minute, full of that fault.

She had it in fact, by this prompted thought, all before her.