Daisy Miller

often thought of Daisy Miller and her mystifying manners. One day he spoke of her to his aunt—said it was on his conscience that he had done her injustice.
    "I am sure I don't know," said Mrs. Costello. "How did your injustice affect her?"
    "She sent me a message before her death which I didn't understand at the time; but I have understood it since. She would have appreciated one's esteem."
    "Is that a modest way," asked Mrs. Costello, "of saying that she would have reciprocated one's affection?"
    Winterbourne offered no answer to this question; but he presently said, "You were right in that remark that you made last summer. I was booked to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts."
    Nevertheless, he went back to live at Geneva, whence there continue to come the most contradictory accounts of his motives of sojourn: a report that he is "studying" hard—an intimation that he is much interested in a very clever foreign lady.