"He has seen Marie de Vionnet again ?" "He went, all by himself, the day after Chad's party--didn't I tell you ?--to tea with her.

By her invitation--all alone." "Quite like yourself!" Maria smiled.
"Oh but he's more wonderful about her than I am!" And then as his friend showed how she could believe it, filling it out, fitting it on to old memories of the wonderful woman: "What I should have liked to manage would have been HER going." "To Switzerland with the party ?" "For Jim--and for symmetry.

If it had been workable moreover for a fortnight she'd have gone.

She's ready"-- he followed up his renewed vision of her--"for anything." Miss Gostrey went with him a minute.

"She's too perfect!" "She WILL, I think," he pursued, "go to-night to the station." "To see him off ?" "With Chad--marvellously--as part of their general attention.