"It's nothing to the way you will when you must." He winced at it as at the very voice of prophecy, and it kept him a moment quiet.

He detained her, however, on her appearing about to leave him alone in the rather cold clearance their talk had made.
"There positively isn't a sign of a hero to-night; the hero's dodging and shirking, the hero's ashamed.

Therefore, you know, I think, what you must all REALLY be occupied with is the heroine." Miss Barrace took a minute.

"The heroine ?" "The heroine.

I've treated her," said Strether, "not a bit like a hero.