the minute, it had been changed to concern for his
own anxiety, for everything that was deep in his being and everything
that was fair in his face. So far as seeing that she was "paid" went, he
might have been holding out the money-bag for her to come and take it.
But what instantly rose, for her, between the act and her acceptance was
the sense that she must strike him as waiting for a confession. This, in
turn, charged her with a new horror: if that was her proper payment she
would go without money. His acknowledgment hung there, too monstrously,
at the expense of Charlotte, before whose mastery of the greater style
she had just been standing dazzled. All she now knew, accordingly, was
that she should be ashamed to listen to the uttered word; all, that is,
but that she might dispose of it on the spot forever.

"Isn't she too splendid?" she simply said, offering it to explain and to
finish.

"Oh, splendid!" With which he came over to her.

"That's our help, you see," she added--to point further her moral.

It kept him before her therefore, taking in--or trying to--what she so
wonderfully gave. He tried, too clearly, to please her--to meet her in
her own way; but with the result only that, close to her, her face kept
before him, his hands holding her shoulders, his whole act enclosing
her, he presently echoed: "'See'? I see nothing but you." And the truth
of it had, with this force, after a moment, so strangely lighted his
eyes that, as for pity and dread of them, she buried her own in his
breast.

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