"Oh I DON'T make myself felt; so my quantity needn't be settled.

Yours, you know," she said, "is monstrous.

No one has ever had so much." It struck him for a moment.

"That's what Chad also thinks." "There YOU are then--though it isn't for him to complain of it!" "Oh he doesn't complain of it," said Strether.
"That's all that would be wanting! But apropos of what," Maria went on, "did the question come up ?" "Well, of his asking me what it is I gain." She had a pause.

"Then as I've asked you too it settles my case.