That's just the beauty of it.

Isn't it very much the kind of beauty you had in mind," little Bilham went on, "when you were so wonderful and so inspiring to me the other day?
Didn't you adjure me, in accents I shall never forget, to see, while I've a chance, everything I can ?--and REALLY to see, for it must have been that only you meant.

Well, you did me no end of good, and I'm doing my best.

I DO make it out a situation." "So do I!" Strether went on after a moment.

But he had the next minute an inconsequent question.