"I was speaking of Sarah.

I must positively--though she quite cast me off--see HER again.
I can't part with her that way." "Then she was awfully unpleasant ?" Again Strether exhaled.

"She was what she had to be.

I mean that from the moment they're not delighted they can only be--well what I admit she was.

We gave them," he went on, "their chance to be delighted, and they've walked up to it, and looked all round it, and not taken it." "You can bring a horse to water--!" Chad suggested.
"Precisely.