"I haven't touched her.

She won't BE touched.

I see it now as I've never done; and she hangs together with a perfection of her own," he went on, "that does suggest a kind of wrong in ANY change of her composition.

It was at any rate," he wound up, "the woman herself, as you call her the whole moral and intellectual being or block, that Sarah brought me over to take or to leave." It turned Miss Gostrey to deeper thought.

"Fancy having to take at the point of the bayonet a whole moral and intellectual being or block!" "It was in fact," said Strether, "what, at home, I HAD done.