"Obliged to provide for my marrying ?" "Yes--after all I've done to you!" The young man weighed it.

"Have you done as much as that ?" "Well," said Strether, thus challenged, "of course I must remember what you've also done to ME.

We may perhaps call it square.

But all the same," he went on, "I wish awfully you'd marry Mamie Pocock yourself." Little Bilham laughed out.

"Why it was only the other night, in this very place, that you were proposing to me a different union altogether." "Mademoiselle de Vionnet ?" Well, Strether easily confessed it.