Mamie would be fat, too fat, at thirty; but she would always be the person who, at the present sharp hour, had been disinterestedly tender.

"If I see a little more of her, as I hope I shall, I think she'll like me enough--for she seemed to like me to-day--to want me to tell her." "And SHALL you ?" "Perfectly.

I shall tell her the matter with her is that she wants only too much to do right.

To do right for her, naturally," said Mamie, "is to please." "Her mother, do you mean ?" "Her mother first." Strether waited.

"And then ?" "Well, 'then'-- Mr.Newsome." There was something really grand for him in the serenity of this reference.