"That you're coming down on him need have nothing to do with it." "You see more in it," he presently returned, "than I." "Of course I see you in it." "Well then you see more in 'me'!" "Than you see in yourself?
Very likely.

That's always one's right.
What I was thinking of," she explained, "is the possible particular effect on him of his milieu." "Oh his milieu--!" Strether really felt he could imagine it better now than three hours before.
"Do you mean it can only have been so lowering ?" "Why that's my very starting-point." "Yes, but you start so far back.

What do his letters say ?" "Nothing.

He practically ignores us--or spares us.

He doesn't write." "I see.