He had before this had many moments of wondering if he himself weren't perhaps changed even as Chad was changed.

Only what in Chad was conspicuous improvement--well, he had no name ready for the working, in his own organism, of his own more timid dose.

He should have to see first what this action would amount to.

And for his occult passage with the young man, after all, the directness of it had no greater oddity than the fact that the young man's way with the three travellers should have been so happy a manifestation.

Strether liked him for it, on the spot, as he hadn't yet liked him; it affected him while it lasted as he might have been affected by some light pleasant perfect work of art: to that degree that he wondered if they were really worthy of it, took it in and did it justice; to that degree that it would have been scarce a miracle if, there in the luggage-room, while they waited for their things, Sarah had pulled his sleeve and drawn him aside.