But he spoke again as they came in sight of the station.
"Do you mean to introduce her to Miss Gostrey ?" As to this Strether was ready.

"No." "But haven't you told me they know about her ?" "I think I've told you your mother knows." "And won't she have told Sally ?" "That's one of the things I want to see." "And if you find she HAS-- ?" "Will I then, you mean, bring them together ?" "Yes," said Chad with his pleasant promptness: "to show her there's nothing in it." Strether hesitated.

"I don't know that I care very much what she may think there's in it." "Not if it represents what Mother thinks ?" "Ah what DOES your mother think ?" There was in this some sound of bewilderment.
But they were just driving up, and help, of a sort, might after all be quite at hand.

"Isn't that, my dear man, what we're both just going to make out ?" II Strether quitted the station half an hour later in different company.
Chad had taken charge, for the journey to the hotel, of Sarah, Mamie, the maid and the luggage, all spaciously installed and conveyed; and it was only after the four had rolled away that his companion got into a cab with Jim.

A strange new feeling had come over Strether, in consequence of which his spirits had risen; it was as if what had occurred on the alighting of his critics had been something other than his fear, though his fear had vet not been of an instant scene of violence.