Last week--while Chad was out of town." "Yes--and I was away, as it happened, too.

You choose your moments well.

But don't wait for my next absence, for I shan't make another," Madame de Vionnet declared, "while Mrs.Pocock's here." "That vow needn't keep you long, fortunately," Sarah observed with reasserted suavity.

"I shall be at present but a short time in Paris.
I have my plans for other countries.

I meet a number of charming friends"-- and her voice seemed to caress that description of these persons.
"Ah then," her visitor cheerfully replied, "all the more reason! To-morrow, for instance, or next day ?" she continued to Strether.
"Tuesday would do for me beautifully." "Tuesday then with pleasure." "And at half-past five ?--or at six ?" It was ridiculous, but Mrs.Pocock and Waymarsh struck him as fairly waiting for his answer.