"But they've made up their minds to the opposite--that you CAN'T go on as you are." "No," Chad continued in the same way; "they won't have it for a minute." Strether on his side also reflectively smoked.

It was as if their high place really represented some moral elevation from which they could look down on their recent past.

"There never was the smallest chance, do you know, that they WOULD have it for a moment." "Of course not--no real chance.

But if they were willing to think there was--!" "They weren't willing." Strether had worked it all out.

"It wasn't for you they came out, but for me.