"My young man does admit furthermore that they're our friend's great interest." "Is that the expression he uses ?" Strether more exactly recalled.

"No--not quite." "Something more vivid?
Less ?" He had bent, with neared glasses, over a group of articles on a small stand; and at this he came up.

"It was a mere allusion, but, on the lookout as I was, it struck me.

'Awful, you know, as Chad is'-- those were Bilham's words." "'Awful, you know'-- ?
Oh!"-- and Miss Gostrey turned them over.

She seemed, however, satisfied.