[Note: In the 1909 New York Edition the following two chapters were placed in the reverse of the order appearing below.

Since 1950, most scholars have agreed, because of the internal evidence of the two chapters, that an editorial error caused them to be printed in reverse order.

This Etext, like other editions of the past four decades, corrects the apparent error .-- Richard D.Hathaway, preparer of this electronic text] I He went late that evening to the Boulevard Malesherbes, having his impression that it would be vain to go early, and having also, more than once in the course of the day, made enquiries of the concierge.
Chad hadn't come in and had left no intimation; he had affairs, apparently, at this juncture--as it occurred to Strether he so well might have--that kept him long abroad.

Our friend asked once for him at the hotel in the Rue de Rivoli, but the only contribution offered there was the fact that every one was out.

It was with the idea that he would have to come home to sleep that Strether went up to his rooms, from which however he was still absent, though, from the balcony, a few moments later, his visitor heard eleven o'clock strike.