I was indeed," he added, "already on it a little; but you set me harder.

It was six weeks ago that I thought I had come out." Strether took it well in.

"But you haven't come out!" "I don't know--it's what I WANT to know," said Chad.

"And if I could have sufficiently wanted--by myself--to go back, I think I might have found out." "Possibly"-- Strether considered.

"But all you were able to achieve was to want to want to! And even then," he pursued, "only till our friends there came.