Fanny had appeared to wish to make sure, but there was something she remembered—remembered in time and even with a smile. "I've told you before that I know absolutely nothing."
"Well—that's what I know," said the Princess.
Her friend again hesitated. "Then nobody knows—? I mean," Mrs.
Assingham explained, "how much your father does."
Oh, Maggie showed that she understood. "Nobody."
"Not—a little—Charlotte?"
"A little?" the Princess echoed. "To know anything would be, for her, to know enough."
"And she doesn't know anything?"
"If she did," Maggie answered, "Amerigo would."
"And that's just it—that he doesn't?"
"That's just it," said the Princess profoundly.