You're safe--with every right to be.
You'd be much happier if you'd only believe it." Strether was silent a little; then he found himself speaking with a cynicism of confidence of which even at the moment the sources were strange to him.

"I try to believe it.

But it's a marvel," he exclaimed, "how YOU already get at it!" Oh she was able to say.

"Remember how much I was on the way to it through Mr.Newsome--before I saw you.

He thinks everything of your strength." "Well, I can bear almost anything!" our friend briskly interrupted.
Deep and beautiful on this her smile came back, and with the effect of making him hear what he had said just as she had heard it.