Densher really quite wondered if Aunt Maud knew how far Kate's devotion went.
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialDensher really quite wondered if Aunt Maud knew how far Kate's devotion went.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIf she saw his intention in it she yet blinked neither with doubt nor with acceptance; she only said imperturbably: "Yes, she'll herself do anything for her friend; so that she but preaches what she practises."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialBut Aunt Maud, wonderfully and facing him straight, took it as if her confidence were supplied with other props.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialHe found pleasure in being able to give his hostess an account of his passage with Kate that, while quite veracious, might be reassuring to herself.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social*She* keeps me up—she has had so much to say about them."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialThat's exactly, you know, what Miss Croy has been saying to me.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"You're all looking after my manners.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialHe at any rate could but try.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialAffected, surprised by the coincidence of her appeal with Kate's, he asked himself quickly if it mightn't help him with her.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialDon't, I only mean, in the press of other things, too much neglect her."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Well, one seemed rather to gather that you hadn't taken out the patent.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialBut you must remember that, so far as her 'interest' is concerned, I myself discovered, I—as was said at dinner—invented her."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"If you mean Miss Theale," he said, "I shall certainly not forget her.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialYou'll find her really interesting."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Return to our little friend.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIt was an imperative "Wait a minute," by which she both detained and dismissed him; she was particular about her minute, but he hadn't yet given her, as happened, a sign of withdrawal.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialWhat further occurred was that Aunt Maud, having released her, immediately had a word for himself.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialThis personage had forestalled him in opening the door for her and was evidently—with a view, Densher might have judged, to ulterior designs on Milly—proposing to attend her to her carriage.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.sociala matter as to which there was now nothing more to be done, thanks to the alertness of the young man he by this time had appraised as even more harmless than himself.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIt gathered perhaps a slightly sharper shade from the mild formality of her "Good-night, sir!" as she passed him;