"That danger being their position. What their position contains--
of all the elements--I needn't at this time of day attempt to
tell you. It contains, luckily--for that's the mercy--
everything BUT blindness: I mean on their part. The blindness,"
said Fanny, "is primarily her husband's."
He stood for a moment; he WOULD have it straight. "Whose
husband's?"
"Mr. Verver's," she went on. "The blindness is most of all his.
That they feel--that they see. But it's also his wife's."
"Whose wife's?" he asked as she continued to gloom at him in a
manner at variance with the comparative cheer of her contention.
And then as she only gloomed: "The Prince's?"
"Maggie's own--Maggie's very own," she pursued as for herself.