"Take you ?" "For as long as I can bear it." She also debated "Mr.Newsome and Madame de Vionnet may, as we were saying, leave town.

How long do you think you can bear it without them ?" Strether's reply to this was at first another question.

"Do you mean in order to get away from me ?" Her answer had an abruptness.

"Don't find me rude if I say I should think they'd want to!" He looked at her hard again--seemed even for an instant to have an intensity of thought under which his colour changed.

But he smiled.
"You mean after what they've done to me ?" "After what SHE has." At this, however, with a laugh, he was all right again.