"What in the name of all the Pococks have you managed to do ?" "Why exactly the wrong thing.

I've made a frantic friend of little Bilham." "Ah that sort of thing was of the essence of your case and to have been allowed for from the first." And it was only after this that, quite as a minor matter, she asked who in the world little Bilham might be.

When she learned that he was a friend of Chad's and living for the time in Chad's rooms in Chad's absence, quite as if acting in Chad's spirit and serving Chad's cause, she showed, however, more interest.

"Should you mind my seeing him?
Only once, you know," she added.
"Oh the oftener the better: he's amusing--he's original." "He doesn't shock you ?" Miss Gostrey threw out.
"Never in the world! We escape that with a perfection--! I feel it to be largely, no doubt, because I don't half-understand him; but our modus vivendi isn't spoiled even by that.

You must dine with me to meet him," Strether went on.