42/90 "Men ?" "She would have had you, with it, more for herself. But she saw she could have you without it." "Oh 'have' me!" Strether a trifle ambiguously sighed. "YOU," he handsomely declared, "would have had me at any rate WITH it." "Oh 'have' you!"-- she echoed it as he had done. "I do have you, however," she less ironically said, "from the moment you express a wish." He stopped before her, full of the disposition. "I'll express fifty." Which indeed begot in her, with a certain inconsequence, a return of her small wail. |