"You've renewed acquaintance with your friend--you've learnt to know him again." She spoke with such cheerful helpfulness that they might, in a common cause, have been calling together and pledged to mutual aid.
Waymarsh, at this, as if he had been in question, straightway turned from the window.

"Oh yes, Countess--he has renewed acquaintance with ME, and he HAS, I guess, learnt something about me, though I don't know how much he has liked it.

It's for Strether himself to say whether he has felt it justifies his course." "Oh but YOU," said the Countess gaily, "are not in the least what he came out for--is he really, Strether?
and I hadn't you at all in my mind.

I was thinking of Mr.Newsome, of whom we think so much and with whom, precisely, Mrs.Pocock has given herself the opportunity to take up threads.

What a pleasure for you both!" Madame de Vionnet, with her eyes on Sarah, bravely continued.
Mrs.Pocock met her handsomely, but Strether quickly saw she meant to accept no version of her movements or plans from any other lips.