"Nothing perhaps but his knowing that she knew." "'Knew' ?" "That he was doing it, so much, for me.

To what extent," she suddenly asked of her friend, "do you think he was aware that she knew ?" "Ah, who can say what passes between people in such a relation?
The only thing one can be sure of is that he was generous." And Mrs.Assingham conclusively smiled.

"He doubtless knew as much as was right for himself." "As much, that is, as was right for her." "Yes then--as was right for her.

The point is," Fanny declared, "that, whatever his knowledge, it made, all the way it went, for his good faith." Maggie continued to gaze, and her friend now fairly waited on her successive movements.

"Isn't the point, very considerably, that his good faith must have been his faith in her taking almost as much interest in me as he himself took ?" Fanny Assingham thought.