We'll take as many days to it as you like.

But I want," Strether wound up, "to go to bed now." "Really ?" Chad had spoken in such surprise that he was amused.

"Can't you believe it ?--with what you put me through ?" The young man seemed to consider.

"Oh I haven't put you through much--yet." "Do you mean there's so much more to come ?" Strether laughed.

"All the more reason then that I should gird myself." And as if to mark what he felt he could by this time count on he was already on his feet.
Chad, still seated, stayed him, with a hand against him, as he passed between their table and the next.