"Isn't your having seen them for yourself then THE thing, beyond all others, that has come of their visit ?" Chad looked as if he thought it nice of his old friend to put it so.
"Don't you count it as anything that you're dished--if you ARE dished?
Are you, my dear man, dished ?" It sounded as if he were asking if he had caught cold or hurt his foot, and Strether for a minute but smoked and smoked.

"I want to see her again.

I must see her." "Of course you must." Then Chad hesitated.

"Do you mean--a--Mother herself ?" "Oh your mother--that will depend." It was as if Mrs.Newsome had somehow been placed by the words very far off.

Chad however endeavoured in spite of this to reach the place.
"What do you mean it will depend on ?" Strether, for all answer, gave him a longish look.