With Mr.Pocock." Strether wondered.

"Madame de Vionnet--with Jim ?" "Madame de Vionnet--with 'Jim.'" Miss Barrace was historic.
"And what's she doing with him ?" "Ah you must ask HIM!" Strether's face lighted again at the prospect.

"It WILL be amusing to do so." Yet he continued to wonder.

"But she must have some idea." "Of course she has--she has twenty ideas.

She has in the first place," said Miss Barrace, swinging a little her tortoise-shell, "that of doing her part.