46/105 "What woman was EVER safe? After that a quoi se fier ?" "It was, as an accident, in all the possible or impossible chapter," Strether conceded, "amazing enough. But still, but still--!" "But still she didn't mind ?" "She doesn't mind anything." "Well, then, as you don't either, we may all sink to rest!" He appeared to agree with her, but he had his reservation. "I do mind Chad's disappearance." "Oh you'll get him back. But now you know," she said, "why I went to Mentone." He had sufficiently let her see that he had by this time gathered things together, but there was nature in her wish to make them clearer still. |