You see you too had produced your effect; only, unlike you, he had thought of it again--he HAD recurred to it.

He told me of your having wished to make each other presents--but of that's not having come off.

The lady was greatly taken with the piece I had bought of him, but you had your reason against receiving it from her, and you had been right.

He would think that of you more than ever now," Maggie went on; "he would see how wisely you had guessed the flaw and how easily the bowl could be broken.

I had bought it myself, you see, for a present--he knew I was doing that.