52/67 "'Correct' her ?"--and it was her own now that really rang. "Aren't you rather forgetting who she is ?" After which, while he quite stared for it, as it was the very first clear majesty he had known her to use, she flung down her book and raised a warning hand. Come!" The "Come!" had matched, for lucid firmness, the rest of her speech, and, when they were below, in the hall, there was a "Go!" for him, through the open doors and between the ranged servants, that matched even that. He received Royalty, bareheaded, therefore, in the persons of Mr.and Mrs.Verver, as it alighted on the pavement, and Maggie was at the threshold to welcome it to her house. |