50/84 "You won't take me with you ?" "Not for the world." "Then I shall walk." "In the rain ?" "I like the rain," said Strether. "Good-night!" She kept him a moment, while his hand was on the door, by not answering; after which she answered by repeating her question. "What do you stand to lose ?" Why the question now affected him as other he couldn't have said; he could only this time meet it otherwise. "Everything." "So I thought. |