Kate for a moment said nothing. " After all I
never asked her; never, when our troubles were
at the worst, appealed to her nor went near her.
She fixed upon me herself, settled on me with her
wonderful gilded claws."

"You speak," Densher observed, " as if she were
a vulture."

"Call it an eagle with a gilded beak as well, and
with wings for great flights. If she's a thing of
the air, in short say at once a balloon I never
myself got into her car. I was her choice."

It had really, her sketch of the affair, a high col
our and a great style; at all of which he gazed a
minute as at a picture by a master. " What she
must see in you!"

"Wonders! " And, speaking it loud, she stood
straight up. " Everything. There it is."

Yes, there it was, and as she remained before
him he continued to face it. " So that what you
mean is that I'm to do my part in somehow squar
ing her?"

"See her, see her," Kate said with impatience.

"And grovel to her?"

"Ah, do what you like! " And she walked in
her impatience away.

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