He may have made out at last how such a demand was, in the long run, to affect her." "He may have done many things," Mrs.Assingham responded; "but there's one thing he certainly won't have done.

He'll never have shown that he expected of her a quarter as much as she must have understood he was to give." "I've often wondered," Maggie mused, "what Charlotte really understood.
But it's one of the things she has never told me." "Then as it's one of the things she has never told me either, we shall probably never know it; and we may regard it as none of our business.
There are many things," said Mrs.Assingham, "that we shall never know." Maggie took it in with a long reflection.

"Never." "But there are others," her friend went on, "that stare us in the face and that--under whatever difficulty you may feel you labour--may now be enough for us.

Your father has been extraordinary." It had been as if Maggie were feeling her way; but she rallied to this with a rush.

"Extraordinary." "Magnificent," said Fanny Assingham.
Her companion held tight to it.