"Well, only the fact of Mr. Densher's possibly himself keeping it
up--the fear of some final result from _that._
"Oh," said Susie, intellectually a little disconcerted--"she looks far
ahead!"
At this, however, Milly threw off another of her sudden vague "sports."
"No--it's only we who do."
"Well, don't let us be more interested for them than they are for
themselves!"
"Certainly not"--the girl promptly assented. A certain interest
nevertheless remained; she appeared to wish to be clear. "It wasn't of
anything on Kate's own part she spoke."
"You mean she thinks her sister does _not_ care for him?"
It was still as if, for an instant, Milly had to be sure of what she
meant; but there it presently was. "If she did care Mrs. Condrip would
have told me."
What Susan Shepherd seemed hereupon for a little to wonder was why then
they had been talking so. "But did you ask her?"
"Ah, no!"
"Oh!" said Susan Shepherd.
Milly, however, easily explained that she wouldn't have asked her for
the world.