That he himself, I mean, has none." "Then it would appear," Maria suggested, "that he has, after all, something in common with his mother." "He has in common that he makes one, as you say, 'feel' him.

And yet," he added, as if the question were interesting, "one feels others too, even when they have plenty." Miss Gostrey continued suggestive.

"Madame de Vionnet ?" "SHE has plenty." "Certainly--she had quantities of old.

But there are different ways of making one's self felt." "Yes, it comes, no doubt, to that.

You now--" He was benevolently going on, but she wouldn't have it.