Still she debated. "Do you mean write it to her?"

"Quite so. Immediately. To-morrow."

"Oh, I don't think I can write it," said Charlotte Stant. "When I

write to her"--and she looked amused for so different a shade--

"it's about the Principino's appetite and Dr. Brady's visits."

"Very good then--put it to her face to face. We'll go straight to

Paris to meet them."

Charlotte, at this, rose with a movement that was like a small

cry; but her unspoken sense lost itself while she stood with her

eyes on him--he keeping his seat as for the help it gave him, a

little, to make his appeal go up. Presently, however, a new sense

had come to her, and she covered him, kindly, with the expression

of it. "I do think, you know, you must rather 'like' me."

"Thank you," said Adam Verver. "You WILL put it to her yourself

then?"

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