It's a question of an immediate rupture and an immediate return.

I've been conceited enough to dream I can sugar that pill.

I take at any rate the greatest interest in the question.

I took it already before I left home, and I don't mind telling you that, altered as you are, I take it still more now that I've seen you.

You're older and--I don't know what to call it!--more of a handful; but you're by so much the more, I seem to make out, to our purpose." "Do I strike you as improved ?" Strether was to recall that Chad had at this point enquired.
He was likewise to recall--and it had to count for some time as his greatest comfort--that it had been "given" him, as they said at Woollett, to reply with some presence of mind: "I haven't the least idea." He was really for a while to like thinking he had been positively hard.