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Lowder was, in the first place, already beforehand, already affected as by the sudden vision of her having herself pushed too far. Milly could never judge from her face of her uppermost motive it was so little, in its hard, smooth sheen, that kind of human countenance. She looked hard when she spoke fair; the only thing was that when she spoke hard she likewise didn't look soft.
But, renewing soon, she had asked him what he meant then that Mrs. Lowder would do with her, and he had replied that this might safely be left. "She'll get back," he pleasantly said, "her money." He could say it too which was singular without affecting her either as vulgar or as "nasty "; and he had soon explained himself by adding: "Nobody here, you know, does anything for nothing."
This easy and, after all, friendly jibe at her race was really for her, on her new friend's part, the note of personal recognition so far as she required it; and she gave him a prompt and conscious example of morbid anxiety by insisting that her desire to be, herself, "lovely" all round was justly founded on the lovely way Mrs. Lowder had met her.
Lowder was with him. It was under the influence of this last reflexion that Densher again delayed; and it was while he delayed that something else occurred to him. It was all round, visibly given his own new contribution a case of pressure; and in a case of pressure Kate, for quicker knowledge, might have come out with her aunt.
He waited at the window another moment and then faced his friend with a thought. "He will have proposed to Miss Croy. That's what has happened." Her reserve continued. "It's you who must judge." "Well, I do judge. Mrs. Lowder will have done so too only she, poor lady, wrong. Miss Croy's refusal of him will have struck him" Densher continued to make it out "as a phenomenon requiring a reason."
Lowder had already, in mind, drafted a rough plan of action, a plan vividly enough thrown off as she said: "You must stay on a few days, and you must immediately, both of you, meet him at dinner." In addition to which Maud claimed the merit of having by an instinct of pity, of prescient wisdom, done much, two nights before, to prepare that ground.
Lowder if she had let you know, though I rather gathered she had; and it's what I've been in fact since then assuming. It was because I was so struck at the moment with your having, as she did tell me, so suddenly come here." "Yes, it was sudden enough." Very neat and fine in the contracted firelight, with her hands in her lap, Kate considered what he had said.
That's good enough for me!" and Marian's tone struck her companion as dreadful. "If I don't believe in Merton Densher, I do at least in Mrs. Lowder." "Your ideas are the more striking," Kate returned, "that they're the same as papa's. I had them from him, you may be interested to know and with all the brilliancy you may imagine yesterday." Marian clearly was interested to know.
"'Gene found out from a man that had lived in his town in New Hampshire that Lowder didn't do no lumbering of his own. He just makes a business of dirty deals like that for pay. He always surmised it to be some lumber-company; somebody that runs a mill. Lots of men that run mills do that sort of thing, darn 'em!" Marise leaned against the pantry shelf.
Mrs. Lowder made use of the moment: Milly felt as soon as she had spoken that what she was doing was somehow for use. "Dear Susan tells me that you saw, in America, Mr. Densher whom I've never till now, as you may have noticed, asked you about. But do you mind at last, in connection with him, doing something for me?"
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