Strether arrived precisely in time for her showing it.

"Oh you're too good; but I don't think I feel quite helpless.

I have my brother--and these American friends.

And then you know I've been to Paris.

I KNOW Paris," said Sally Pocock in a tone that breathed a certain chill on Strether's heart.
"Ah but a woman, in this tiresome place where everything's always changing, a woman of good will," Madame de Vionnet threw off, "can always help a woman.