"He'll resist even Miss Gostrey: so grand is it not to understand.

He's wonderful." "He is indeed," Strether conceded.

"He wouldn't tell me of this affair--only said he had an engagement; but with such a gloom, you must let me insist, as if it had been an engagement to be hanged.

Then silently and secretly he turns up here with you.

Do you call THAT 'lasting' ?" "Oh I hope it's lasting!" Miss Barrace said.