I shall have a use for it!"-- which she didn't however follow up.
She had come back the next moment to another matter.

"Mrs.Pocock, with her brother, is trusting only to her general charm ?" "So it would seem." "And the charm's not working ?" Well, Strether put it otherwise, "She's sounding the note of home--which is the very best thing she can do." "The best for Madame de Vionnet ?" "The best for home itself.

The natural one; the right one." "Right," Maria asked, "when it fails ?" Strether had a pause.

"The difficulty's Jim.

Jim's the note of home." She debated.