"It's the American way.

That's all." "Exactly--it's all.

It's all, I say! It fits him--so it must be good for something." "Do you think it would be good for you ?" Maggie Verver had smilingly asked.
To which his reply had been just of the happiest.

"I don't feel, my dear, if you really want to know, that anything much can now either hurt me or help me.

Such as I am--but you'll see for yourself.