16/88 I want awfully to have worked it. I want"-- and our friend spoke now with a yearning that was really earnest--"at least to have done THAT." "To have married me off--without a penny ?" "Well, I shan't live long; and I give you my word, now and here, that I'll leave you every penny of my own. I haven't many, unfortunately, but you shall have them all. And Miss Pocock, I think, has a few. I want," Strether went on, "to have been at least to that extent constructive even expiatory. |