It wasn't to see for themselves what you're doing, but what I'm doing.

The first branch of their curiosity was inevitably destined, under my culpable delay, to give way to the second; and it's on the second that, if I may use the expression and you don't mind my marking the invidious fact, they've been of late exclusively perched.

When Sarah sailed it was me, in other words, they were after." Chad took it in both with intelligence and with indulgence.

"It IS rather a business then--what I've let you in for!" Strether had again a brief pause; which ended in a reply that seemed to dispose once for all of this element of compunction.

Chad was to treat it, at any rate, so far as they were again together, as having done so.
"I was 'in' when you found me." "Ah but it was you," the young man laughed, "who found ME." "I only found you out.