I hope you believe I really feel it." "I want it," said Strether, "to be my last word of all to you.

I can't say more, you know; and I don't see how I can do more, in every way, than I've done." Chad took this, almost artlessly, as a direct allusion.

"You've seen her ?" "Oh yes--to say good-bye.

And if I had doubted the truth of what I tell you--" "She'd have cleared up your doubt ?" Chad understood--"rather"-- again! It even kept him briefly silent.

But he made that up.