But it isn't, is it," Miss Barrace considerately added, "as if you had ever had any doubt of that ?" Strether seemed suddenly to like to feel that he really never had.

"Why of course it's the whole point." "Voila!" Miss Barrace smiled.
"It's why one came out," Strether went on.

"And it's why one has stayed so long.

And it's also"-- he abounded--"why one's going home.
It's why, it's why--" "It's why everything!" she concurred.

"It's why she might be to-night--for all she looks and shows, and for all your friend 'Jim' does--about twenty years old.