"Didn't we get you anything ?" Maggie waited a little; she had for some time, now, kept her eyes on him steadily; but they wandered, at this, to the fragments on her chimney.
"Yes; it comes round, after all, to your having got me the bowl.

I myself was to come upon it, the other day, by so wonderful a chance; was to find it in the same place and to have it pressed upon me by the same little man, who does, as you say, understand Italian.

I did 'believe in it,' you see--must have believed in it somehow instinctively; for I took it as soon as I saw it.

Though I didn't know at all then," she added, "what I was taking WITH it." The Prince paid her for an instant, visibly, the deference of trying to imagine what this might have been.

"I agree with you that the coincidence is extraordinary--the sort of thing that happens mainly in novels and plays.