To whom do you say it?
High-strung?
Don't I spend my life, for them, jamming down the pedal?
I see moreover how it has told on you." Strether took this more lightly.

"Oh I jam down the pedal too!" "Well," she lucidly returned, "we must from this moment bear on it together with all our might." And she forged ahead.

"Have they money ?" But it was as if, while her energetic image still held him, her enquiry fell short.

"Mrs.Newsome," he wished further to explain, "hasn't moreover your courage on the question of contact.

If she had come it would have been to see the person herself." "The woman?
Ah but that's courage." "No--it's exaltation, which is a very different thing.