"Of him, dear man, of HIM--!" Her friend, able to take in thus directly her vision of her father, watched her with a new suspense.

THAT way might safety lie--it was like a wider chink of light.

"He believed--with a beauty!--in Charlotte." "Yes, and it was I who had made him believe.

I didn't mean to, at the time, so much; for I had no idea then of what was coming.

But I did it, I did it!" the Princess declared.
"With a beauty--ah, with a beauty, you too!" Mrs.Assingham insisted.
Maggie, however, was seeing for herself--it was another matter, "The thing was that he made her think it would be so possible." Fanny again hesitated.