You'll ease off the strain of this decent but none the less acute suspense in which I've for so many days been waiting for you, and let me turn in to rest.

I shall leave you with my blessing and go to bed in peace." Chad again fell back at this and, his hands pocketed, settled himself a little; in which posture he looked, though he rather anxiously smiled, only the more earnest.

Then Strether seemed to see that he was really nervous, and he took that as what he would have called a wholesome sign.

The only mark of it hitherto had been his more than once taking off and putting on his wide-brimmed crush hat.

He had at this moment made the motion again to remove it, then had only pushed it back, so that it hung informally on his strong young grizzled crop.