"She has too much at stake." Then less gravely: "Mine, luckily for me, holds out." "Luckily for me too"-- Strether came back to that.

"My own isn't so firm, MY appetite for responsibility isn't so sharp, as that I haven't felt the very principle of this occasion to be 'the more the merrier.' If we ARE so merry it's because Chad has understood so well." "He has understood amazingly," said Miss Barrace.
"It's wonderful--Strether anticipated for her.
"It's wonderful!" she, to meet it, intensified; so that, face to face over it, they largely and recklessly laughed.

But she presently added: "Oh I see the principle.

If one didn't one would be lost.

But when once one has got hold of it--" "It's as simple as twice two! From the moment he had to do something--" "A crowd"-- she took him straight up--"was the only thing?
Rather, rather: a rumpus of sound," she laughed, "or nothing.