We SHOULD prefer them blameless, but we have to make the best of them as we find them.
Since the spirit of the age and the increasing mildness send them so much more to Paris--" "You've to take them back as they come.

When they DO come.

Bon!" Once more she embraced it all, but she had a moment of thought.

"Poor Chad!" "Ah," said Strether cheerfully "Mamie will save him!" She was looking away, still in her vision, and she spoke with impatience and almost as if he hadn't understood her.

"YOU'LL save him.