I've been, from the first moment, preoccupied with the impression everything might be making on her--quite oppressed, haunted, tormented by it.

I've been interested ONLY in her seeing what I've seen.

And I've been as disappointed in her refusal to see it as she has been in what has appeared to her the perversity of my insistence." "Do you mean that she has shocked you as you've shocked her ?" Strether weighed it.

"I'm probably not so shockable.

But on the other hand I've gone much further to meet her.