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May she never have a caprice that pleases him less ! '' Rowland had already asked Madame Grandoni what , to her perception , was the present state of matters between Christina and Roderick ; and he now repeated his question with some earnestness of apprehension . `` The girl is so deucedly dramatic , '' he said , `` that I do n't know what coup de theatre she may have in store for us . Such a stroke was her turning Catholic ; such a stroke would be her some day making her courtesy to a disappointed world as Princess Casamassima , married at midnight , in her bonnet . She might do -- she may do -- something that would make even more starers ! I ` m prepared for anything . '' `` You mean that she might elope with your sculptor , eh ? ''