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To which she added with inconsequence: "I'm too sorry for her of course she can't enjoy it. But I don't see what perversity rides her. She needn't have looked it all so in the face as she doesn't do it, I suppose, simply for discipline. It's almost that's the bore of it discipline to ME." "Perhaps then," said Bob Assingham, "that's what has been her idea.
"Under her direct appeal for the truth?" "Under her direct appeal for the truth." "Her appeal to his honour?" "Her appeal to his honour. That's my point." Fanny Assingham braved it. "For the truth as from him to her?" "From him to any one." Mrs. Assingham's face lighted. "He'll simply, he'll insistently have lied?" Maggie brought it out roundly. "He'll simply, he'll insistently have lied."
Assingham and the Colonel, quitting Fawns before the end of September, had come back later on; and now, a couple of weeks after, they were again interrupting their stay, but this time with the question of their return left to depend, on matters that were rather hinted at than importunately named. The Lutches and Mrs.
"Taking it in the right way." Fanny, catching at this gleam, emphasised the proviso. "But doesn't it rather depend on what she may most feel to BE the right way?" "No it depends on nothing. Because there's only one way for duty or delicacy." "Oh delicacy!" Bob Assingham rather crudely murmured. "I mean the highest kind moral. Charlotte's perfectly capable of appreciating that.
Assingham herself was the first to say that she would unfailingly "report"; she brought it out in fact, he thought, quite wonderfully having attained the summit of the wonderful during the brief interval that had separated her appeal to Charlotte from this passage with himself.
"It's your nature to think too much," Fanny Assingham a trifle coarsely risked. This but quickened, however, in the Princess the act she reprobated. "That may be. But if I hadn't thought !" "You wouldn't, you mean, have been where you are?" "Yes, because they, on their side, thought of everything BUT that. They thought of everything but that I might think."
Assingham contrived, after a couple of pieces, to convey to her friend that, for her part, she was moved by the genius of Brahms beyond what she could bear; so that, without apparent deliberation, she had presently floated away, at the young man's side, to such a distance as permitted them to converse without the effect of disdain.
"You say you've no one to speak to, and you make a point of your having so disguised your feelings not having, as you call it, given yourself away. Have you then never seen it not only as your right, but as your bounden duty, worked up to such a pitch, to speak to your husband?" "I've spoken to him," said Maggie. Mrs. Assingham stared. "Ah, then it isn't true that you've made no sign."
If she had spoken in Florence; if she had told her own poor story; if she had, come back at any time till within a few weeks ago; if she hadn't gone to New York and hadn't held out there: if she hadn't done these things all that has happened since would certainly have been different. Therefore she's in a position to be consistent now. She knows the Prince," Mrs. Assingham repeated.
"Well then, if it's because of this !" And Fanny Assingham, who had been casting about her and whose inspiration decidedly had come, raised the cup in her two hands, raised it positively above her head, and from under it, solemnly, smiled at the Princess as a signal of intention.
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