"There are those sharp facts." Chad had meanwhile thought of another still.

"And don't you really care-- ?" His friend slowly turned round to him.

"Will you go ?" "I'll go if you'll say you now consider I should.

You know," he went on, "I was ready six weeks ago." "Ah," said Strether, "that was when you didn't know I wasn't! You're ready at present because you do know it." "That may be," Chad returned; "but all the same I'm sincere.

You talk about taking the whole thing on your shoulders, but in what light do you regard me that you think me capable of letting you pay ?" Strether patted his arm, as they stood together against the parapet, reassuringly--seeming to wish to contend that he HAD the wherewithal; but it was again round this question of purchase and price that the young man's sense of fairness continued to hover.