"What can I do," he finally asked, "but listen to you as I promised Chadwick ?" "Ah but what I'm asking you," she quickly said, "isn't what Mr.Newsome had in mind." She spoke at present, he saw, as if to take courageously ALL her risk.

"This is my own idea and a different thing." It gave poor Strether in truth--uneasy as it made him too--something of the thrill of a bold perception justified.

"Well," he answered kindly enough, "I was sure a moment since that some idea of your own had come to you." She seemed still to look up at him, but now more serenely.

"I made out you were sure--and that helped it to come.

So you see," she continued, "we do get on." "Oh but it appears to me I don't at all meet your request.