Unmistakeably, in her single person, the motive of the composition and dressed in a splendour of crimson which affected Strether as the sound of a fall through a skylight, she would now be in the forefront of the listening circle and committed by it up to her eyes.

Those eyes during the wonderful dinner itself he hadn't once met; having confessedly--perhaps a little pusillanimously--arranged with Chad that he should be on the same side of the table.

But there was no use in having arrived now with little Bilham at an unprecedented point of intimacy unless he could pitch everything into the pot.

"You who sat where you could see her, what does she make of it all?
By which I mean on what terms does she take it ?" "Oh she takes it, I judge, as proving that the claim of his family is more than ever justified." "She isn't then pleased with what he has to show ?" "On the contrary; she's pleased with it as with his capacity to do this kind of thing--more than she has been pleased with anything for a long time.

But she wants him to show it THERE.