"I'll do anything in the world for you!" "Well," Strether smiled, "anything in the world is all I want.

I don't know anything that pleased me in her more," he went on, "than the way that, on my finding her up there all alone, coming on her unawares and feeling greatly for her being so out of it, she knocked down my tall house of cards with her instant and cheerful allusion to the next young man.

It was somehow so the note I needed--her staying at home to receive him." "It was Chad of course," said little Bilham, "who asked the next young man--I like your name for me!--to call." "So I supposed--all of which, thank God, is in our innocent and natural manners.

But do you know," Strether asked, "if Chad knows-- ?" And then as this interlocutor seemed at a loss: "Why where she has come out." Little Bilham, at this, met his face with a conscious look--it was as if, more than anything yet, the allusion had penetrated.

"Do you know yourself ?" Strether lightly shook his head.