"She wouldn't have done with YOU.

She feels she has lost you--yet that she might have been better for you." "Oh she has been quite good enough!" Strether laughed.
"She thinks you and she might at any rate have been friends." "We might certainly.

That's just"-- he continued to laugh--"why I'm going." It was as if Maria could feel with this then at last that she had done her best for each.

But she had still an idea.

"Shall I tell her that ?" "No.