Of course if they do stay"-- she kept it up--"they would be part of the picturesqueness.

Or else indeed you might join them somewhere." Strether seemed to face it as if it were a happy thought; but the next moment he spoke more critically.

"Do you mean that they'll probably go off together ?" She just considered.

"I think it will be treating you quite without ceremony if they do; though after all," she added, "it would be difficult to see now quite what degree of ceremony properly meets your case." "Of course," Strether conceded, "my attitude toward them is extraordinary." "Just so; so that one may ask one's self what style of proceeding on their own part can altogether match it.

The attitude of their own that won't pale in its light they've doubtless still to work out.