"How old is he ?" "Well, I guess not thirty." "Yet you had to take that from him ?" "Oh I took a good deal more--since, as I tell you, I took an invitation to dejeuner." "And are you GOING to that unholy meal ?" "If you'll come with me.

He wants you too, you know.

I told him about you.

He gave me his card," Strether pursued, "and his name's rather funny.

It's John Little Bilham, and he says his two surnames are, on account of his being small, inevitably used together." "Well," Waymarsh asked with due detachment from these details, "what's he doing up there ?" "His account of himself is that he's 'only a little artist-man.' That seemed to me perfectly to describe him.