THAT'S then what you really want of me.

And how am I to do it?
Perhaps you'll tell me that." "Simply tell her the truth." "And what do you call the truth ?" "Well, any truth--about us all--that you see yourself.

I leave it to you." "Thank you very much.

I like," Strether laughed with a slight harshness, "the way you leave things!" But she insisted kindly, gently, as if it wasn't so bad.

"Be perfectly honest.