"Ah but you know," the young man had rejoined, "he must see her"; with which, while Strether pricked up his ears, he had started as if to bring her, leaving the other objects of his interest together.

Strether wondered to find Miss Gostrey already involved, feeling that he missed a link; but feeling also, with small delay, how much he should like to talk with her of Madame de Vionnet on this basis of evidence.
The evidence as yet in truth was meagre; which, for that matter, was perhaps a little why his expectation had had a drop.

There was somehow not quite a wealth in her; and a wealth was all that, in his simplicity, he had definitely prefigured.

Still, it was too much to be sure already that there was but a poverty.

They moved away from the house, and, with eyes on a bench at some distance, he proposed that they should sit down.