The form of his submission was to be an engagement to acquit himself within the twenty-four hours.

"He'll go in a moment if you give him the word--he assures me on his honour he'll do that": this came in its order, out of its order, in respect to Chad, after the crash had occurred.

It came repeatedly during the time taken by Strether to feel that he was even more fixed in his rigour than he had supposed--the time he was not above adding to a little by telling her that such a way of putting it on her brother's part left him sufficiently surprised.
She wasn't at all funny at last--she was really fine; and he felt easily where she was strong--strong for herself.

It hadn't yet so come home to him that she was nobly and appointedly officious.

She was acting in interests grander and clearer than that of her poor little personal, poor little Parisian equilibrium, and all his consciousness of her mother's moral pressure profited by this proof of its sustaining force.