Later on indeed he himself was booked to Jim, was to take him that evening to the Varieties--which Strether was careful to pronounce as Jim pronounced them.
Miss Gostrey drank it in.

"What then to-night do the others do ?" "Well, it has been arranged.

Waymarsh takes Sarah to dine at Bignons." She wondered.

"And what do they do after?
They can't come straight home." "No, they can't come straight home--at least Sarah can't.

It's their secret, but I think I've guessed it." Then as she waited: "The circus." It made her stare a moment longer, then laugh almost to extravagance.
"There's no one like you!" "Like ME ?"--he only wanted to understand.
"Like all of you together--like all of us: Woollett, Milrose and their products.