I haven't reduced Sarah, since yesterday; though I've succeeded in seeing her again, as I'll presently tell you.
The others however are really all right.

Mamie, by that blessed law of ours, absolutely must have a young man." "But what must poor Mr.Bilham have?
Do you mean they'll MARRY for you ?" "I mean that, by the same blessed law, it won't matter a grain if they don't--I shan't have in the least to worry." She saw as usual what he meant.

"And Mr.Jim ?--who goes for him ?" "Oh," Strether had to admit, "I couldn't manage THAT.

He's thrown, as usual, on the world; the world which, after all, by his account--for he has prodigious adventures--seems very good to him.

He fortunately--'over here,' as he says--finds the world everywhere; and his most prodigious adventure of all," he went on, "has been of course of the last few days." Miss Gostrey, already knowing, instantly made the connexion.