"I've left you wholly alone; haven't, I think I may say, since the first hour or two--when I merely preached patience--so much as breathed on you." "Oh you've been awfully good!" "We've both been good then--we've played the game.

We've given them the most liberal conditions." "Ah," said Chad, "splendid conditions! It was open to them, open to them"-- he seemed to make it out, as he smoked, with his eyes still on the stars.

He might in quiet sport have been reading their horoscope.
Strether wondered meanwhile what had been open to them, and he finally let him have it.

"It was open to them simply to let me alone; to have made up their minds, on really seeing me for themselves, that I could go on well enough as I was." Strether assented to this proposition with full lucidity, his companion's plural pronoun, which stood all for Mrs.Newsome and her daughter, having no ambiguity for him.

There was nothing, apparently, to stand for Mamie and Jim; and this added to our friend's sense of Chad's knowing what he thought.