The moment concerned him, he felt, more deeply than he could have explained, and he had a subsequent passage of speculation as to whether, on walking off with Chad, he hadn't looked either pale or red.
The only thing he was clear about was that, luckily, nothing indiscreet had in fact been said and that Chad himself was more than ever, in Miss Barrace's great sense, wonderful.

It was one of the connexions--though really why it should be, after all, was none so apparent--in which the whole change in him came out as most striking.

Strether recalled as they approached the house that he had impressed him that first night as knowing how to enter a box.

Well, he impressed him scarce less now as knowing how to make a presentation.

It did something for Strether's own quality--marked it as estimated; so that our poor friend, conscious and passive, really seemed to feel himself quite handed over and delivered; absolutely, as he would have said, made a present of, given away.