"Well perhaps that won't matter!" "You mean because he probably--do what they will--won't like them ?" "Oh 'do what they will'-- ! They won't do much; especially if Sarah hasn't more--well, more than one has yet made out--to give." Madame de Vionnet weighed it.

"Ah she has all her grace!" It was a statement over which, for a little, they could look at each other sufficiently straight, and though it produced no protest from Strether the effect was somehow as if he had treated it as a joke.

"She may be persuasive and caressing with him; she may be eloquent beyond words.
She may get hold of him," she wound up--"well, as neither you nor I have." "Yes, she MAY"-- and now Strether smiled.

"But he has spent all his time each day with Jim.

He's still showing Jim round." She visibly wondered.