"What is the matter, Maggie? Has something happened?" philip said, in inexpressible anxiety, his imagination being only too ready to weave everything that was fatal to them both.
"No, nothing," said Maggie, rousing her latent will.philip must not have that odious thought in his mind;she would banish it from her own. "Nothing," she repeated, "except in my own mind. You used to say I should feel the effect of my starved life, as you called it; and I do. I am too eager in my enjoyment of music and all luxuries, now they are come to me."