Do you want to want to still ?" As with a sound half-dolorous, half-droll and all vague and equivocal, Chad buried his face for a little in his hands, rubbing it in a whimsical way that amounted to an evasion, he brought it out more sharply: "DO you ?" Chad kept for a time his attitude, but at last he looked up, and then abruptly, "Jim IS a damned dose!" he declared.
"Oh I don't ask you to abuse or describe or in any way pronounce on your relatives; I simply put it to you once more whether you're NOW ready.

You say you've 'seen.' Is what you've seen that you can't resist ?" Chad gave him a strange smile--the nearest approach he had ever shown to a troubled one.

"Can't you make me NOT resist ?" "What it comes to," Strether went on very gravely now and as if he hadn't heard him, "what it comes to is that more has been done for you, I think, than I've ever seen done--attempted perhaps, but never so successfully done--by one human being for another." "Oh an immense deal certainly"-- Chad did it full justice.

"And you yourself are adding to it." It was without heeding this either that his visitor continued.

"And our friends there won't have it." "No, they simply won't." "They demand you on the basis, as it were, of repudiation and ingratitude; and what has been the matter with me," Strether went on, "is that I haven't seen my way to working with you for repudiation." Chad appreciated this.