But he's 'notoriously,' as he put it himself, not from Boston." "Well," Waymarsh moralised from dry depths, "every one can't notoriously be from Boston.

Why," he continued, "is he curious ?" "Perhaps just for THAT--for one thing! But really," Strether added, "for everything.

When you meet him you'll see." "Oh I don't want to meet him," Waymarsh impatiently growled.

"Why don't he go home ?" Strether hesitated.

"Well, because he likes it over here." This appeared in particular more than Waymarsh could bear.