"Do you make out that she has a sentiment?
I mean for Mr.Newsome." Almost resentful, Strether could at last be prompt.

"How can I make out such things ?" She remained perfectly good-natured.

"Ah but they're beautiful little things, and you make out--don't pretend--everything in the world.
Haven't you," she asked, "been talking with her ?" "Yes, but not about Chad.

At least not much." "Oh you don't require 'much'!" she reassuringly declared.

But she immediately changed her ground.