But Sally comes out to act, you know," he lucidly added, "every time she leaves the house.

She never comes out but she DOES act.

She's acting moreover now for her mother, and that fixes the scale." Then he wound up, opening all his senses to it, with a renewed embrace of pleasant Paris.

"We haven't all the same at Woollett got anything like this." Strether continued to consider.

"I'm bound to say for you all that you strike me as having arrived in a very mild and reasonable frame of mind.