I more and more like," he insisted, "to see him with them;" though the oddity of this tone between them grew sharper for him even while they spoke.

It placed the young man so before them as the result of her interest and the product of her genius, acknowledged so her part in the phenomenon and made the phenomenon so rare, that more than ever yet he might have been on the very point of asking her for some more detailed account of the whole business than he had yet received from her.

The occasion almost forced upon him some question as to how she had managed and as to the appearance such miracles presented from her own singularly close place of survey.

The moment in fact however passed, giving way to more present history, and he continued simply to mark his appreciation of the happy truth.

"It's a tremendous comfort to feel how one can trust him." And then again while for a little she said nothing--as if after all to HER trust there might be a special limit: "I mean for making a good show to them." "Yes," she thoughtfully returned--"but if they shut their eyes to it!" Strether for an instant had his own thought.