30/84 You're at all events the biggest she can get hold of." She embroidered, she abounded. "I don't say it to interfere between you, but on the day she gets hold of a bigger one--!" Strether had thrown back his head as in silent mirth over something that struck him in her audacity or felicity, and her flight meanwhile was already higher. "Therefore close with her--!" "Close with her ?" he asked as she seemed to hang poised. "What do you mean by closing ?" "And what do I mean by your chance? Is it her GREATEST fad ?" she briskly pursued. |