One does see." "Chad's in love with the daughter ?" "That's what I mean." Strether wondered.

"Then where's the difficulty ?" "Why, aren't you and I--with our grander bolder ideas ?" "Oh mine--!" Strether said rather strangely.

But then as if to attenuate: "You mean they won't hear of Woollett ?" Little Bilham smiled.

"Isn't that just what you must see about ?" It had brought them, as she caught the last words, into relation with Miss Barrace, whom Strether had already observed--as he had never before seen a lady at a party--moving about alone.

Coming within sound of them she had already spoken, and she took again, through her long-handled glass, all her amused and amusing possession.