"It wouldn't suit you also to mention some near time, so that we shall be sure not to lose you ?" Strether on his side waited, for Sarah likewise had, after all, to perform; and it occupied him to have been thus reminded that she had stayed at home--and on her first morning of Paris--while Chad led the others forth.

Oh she was up to her eyes; if she had stayed at home she had stayed by an understanding, arrived at the evening before, that Waymarsh would come and find her alone.

This was beginning well--for a first day in Paris; and the thing might be amusing yet.

But Madame de Vionnet's earnestness was meanwhile beautiful.

"You may think me indiscreet, but I've SUCH a desire my Jeanne shall know an American girl of the really delightful kind.