There's appreciation in that--I mean as to the allowance his mother has hitherto made him.

She has of course the resource of cutting this allowance off; but even then he has unfortunately, and on no small scale, his independent supply--money left him by his grandfather, her own father." "Wouldn't the fact you mention then," Miss Gostrey asked, "make it just more easy for him to be particular?
Isn't he conceivable as fastidious about the source--the apparent and public source--of his income ?" Strether was able quite good-humouredly to entertain the proposition.
"The source of his grandfather's wealth--and thereby of his own share in it--was not particularly noble." "And what source was it ?" Strether cast about.

"Well--practices." "In business?
Infamies?
He was an old swindler ?" "Oh," he said with more emphasis than spirit, "I shan't describe HIM nor narrate his exploits." "Lord, what abysses! And the late Mr.Newsome then ?" "Well, what about him ?" "Was he like the grandfather ?" "No--he was on the other side of the house.

And he was different." Miss Gostrey kept it up.

"Better ?" Her friend for a moment hung fire.