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Her lover voiced the extreme content with his lot which had been his obsession that day. "We have everything, darling. We shall have all that Madeleine and old Lowder have and we have now all this heavenly happiness that they'll never know or miss," he added, giving them their due. "I didn't mean that," protested Lydia.
Lowder, sister, I suppose, of her servant Lowder's, with whom I, notwithstanding all my resolution to follow business close this afternoon, did stay talking and playing the foole almost all the afternoon, and there saw two or three foolish sorry pictures of her doing, but very ridiculous compared to what my wife do. She grows mighty homely and looks old. 13th.
Stringham explained, "the case she believed it to be thought it at any rate might be when, without my knowledge, she went to see him. She went because there was something she was afraid of, and he examined her thoroughly he has made sure. She's wrong she hasn't what she thought." "And what did she think?" Mrs. Lowder demanded. "He didn't tell me." "And you didn't ask?"
There were many explanations, and they were all amusing amusing, that is, in the line of the sombre and brooding amusement, cultivated by Kate in her actual high retreat. Merton Densher came the very next Sunday; but Mrs. Lowder was so consistently magnanimous as to make it possible to her niece to see him alone.
What might really become in all this of the American girl was therefore a question that, on the latter contingency, would lose none of its sharpness. However, questions could wait, and it was easy, so far as he understood, to meet Mrs. Lowder. "It isn't a bit, all the same, you know, that I resist. I find Miss Theale charming." Well, it was all she wanted. "Then don't miss a chance."
He restored then the receptacle to its place and, with a movement not the less odd for being visibly instinctive and unconscious, carried the hand containing his letter behind him. What he thus finally spoke of was a different matter. "Did I understand from Mrs. Lowder that your father's in the house?" If it never had taken her long in such excursions to meet him it was not to take her so now.
Densher was staying because she had really seen no way but to require it of him. If he stayed he didn't follow her or didn't appear to her aunt to be doing so; and when she kept him from following her Mrs. Lowder couldn't pretend, in scenes, the renewal of which at this time of day was painful, that she after all didn't snub him as she might.
"He's very distinguished looking, isn't he?" whispered Madeleine. "So different! And cool! I'd like to see Pete Lowder sit up there to be stared at by all this gang of women." "Oh, he's probably used to it," said her neighbor on the other side. "They say he's spoken before any number of women's clubs. He does two a day sometimes. He's seen lots of American society women before now."
He easily saw how their meeting at Lancaster Gate gave more of an accent to that quantity than their meeting at stations or in parks; and yet on the other hand he couldn't urge this against it. If Mrs. Lowder was indifferent her indifference added in a manner to what Kate's taking him as he was would call on her to sacrifice.
There had been thrice as much, and all gratuitous and genial if, in portions, not exactly hitherto the revelation as three unprepared weeks could have been expected to produce. Mrs. Lowder had improvised a "rush" for them, but out of elements, as Milly was now a little more freely aware, somewhat roughly combined.
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