Page:The Golden Bowl (Scribner, New York, 1909), Volume 2.djvu/240

THE GOLDEN BOWL nature: she saw her companion's face as that of a prisoner looking through bars. So it was that through bars, bars richly gilt but firmly though discreetly planted, Charlotte finally struck her as making a grim attempt; from which at first the Princess drew back as instinctively as if the door of the cage had suddenly been opened from within.