She appeared to have no reserves about anything.

"Oh," she said, "he won't care!"-- and she immediately thereupon remarked that she believed Strether knew the Munsters; the Munsters being the people he had seen her with at Liverpool.
But he didn't, it happened, know the Munsters well enough to give the case much of a lift; so that they were left together as if over the mere laid table of conversation.

Her qualification of the mentioned connexion had rather removed than placed a dish, and there seemed nothing else to serve.

Their attitude remained, none the less, that of not forsaking the board; and the effect of this in turn was to give them the appearance of having accepted each other with an absence of preliminaries practically complete.

They moved along the hall together, and Strether's companion threw off that the hotel had the advantage of a garden.