But you've not spoken to me of what you do." "Oh I've nothing more to gain," said Strether very simply.
She took it as even quite too simple.

"You mean you've got it all 'down'?
You've been paid in advance ?" "Ah don't talk about payment!" he groaned.
Something in the tone of it pulled her up, but as their messenger still delayed she had another chance and she put it in another way.

"What--by failure--do you stand to lose ?" He still, however, wouldn't have it.

"Nothing!" he exclaimed, and on the messenger's at this instant reappearing he was able to sink the subject in their responsive advance.

When, a few steps up the street, under a lamp, he had put her into her four-wheeler and she had asked him if the man had called for him no second conveyance, he replied before the door was closed.