I at least won't take that from you.
Mademoiselle de Vionnet," he explained, in considerable form, to Mrs.
Pocock, "IS pure perfection.

Mademoiselle de Vionnet IS exquisite." It had been perhaps a little portentous, but "Ah ?" Sarah simply glittered.
Waymarsh himself, for that matter, apparently recognised, in respect to the facts, the need of a larger justice, and he had with it an inclination to Sarah.

"Miss Jane's strikingly handsome--in the regular French style." It somehow made both Strether and Madame de Vionnet laugh out, though at the very moment he caught in Sarah's eyes, as glancing at the speaker, a vague but unmistakeable "You too ?" It made Waymarsh in fact look consciously over her head.

Madame de Vionnet meanwhile, however, made her point in her own way.

"I wish indeed I could offer you my poor child as a dazzling attraction: it would make one's position simple enough! She's as good as she can be, but of course she's different, and the question is now--in the light of the way things seem to go--if she isn't after all TOO different: too different I mean from the splendid type every one is so agreed that your wonderful country produces.