This was what passed between them while, for another instant, they stood still; he couldn't at least remember afterwards what else it might have been.

The thing indeed really unmistakeable was its rolling over him as a wave that he had been, in conditions incalculable and unimaginable, a subject of discussion.

He had been, on some ground that concerned her, answered for; which gave her an advantage he should never be able to match.
"Hasn't Miss Gostrey," she asked, "said a good word for me ?" What had struck him first was the way he was bracketed with that lady; and he wondered what account Chad would have given of their acquaintance.

Something not as yet traceable, at all events, had obviously happened.

"I didn't even know of her knowing you." "Well, now she'll tell you all.