"She imagined stupidly--so it comes to the same thing." "Stupidly?
Oh!" said Strether.
But she insisted.

"She imagined meanly." He had it, however, better.

"It couldn't but be ignorantly." "Well, intensity with ignorance--what do you want worse ?" This question might have held him, but he let it pass.

"Sarah isn't ignorant--now; she keeps up the theory of the horrible." "Ah but she's intense--and that by itself will do sometimes as well.

If it doesn't do, in this case, at any rate, to deny that Marie's charming, it will do at least to deny that she's good." "What I claim is that she's good for Chad." "You don't claim"-- she seemed to like it clear--"that she's good for YOU." But he continued without heeding.