"I happen to know--from Chad, whom I saw last night--that they've come back; but only yesterday.

He wasn't sure--up to the last.

This, accordingly," little Bilham went on, "will be--if they ARE here--their first appearance after their return." Strether, very quickly, turned these things over.

"Chad told you last night?
To me, on our way here, he said nothing about it." "But did you ask him ?" Strether did him the justice.

"I dare say not." "Well," said little Bilham, "you're not a person to whom it's easy to tell things you don't want to know.