He knew, up to the hilt--that really came over Chad; he understood, felt, recorded his vow; and they lingered on it as they had lingered in their walk to Strether's hotel the night of their first meeting.

The latter took, at this hour, all he could get; he had given all he had had to give; he was as depleted as if he had spent his last sou.

But there was just one thing for which, before they broke off, Chad seemed disposed slightly to bargain.

His companion needn't, as he said, tell him, but he might himself mention that he had been getting some news of the art of advertisement.

He came out quite suddenly with this announcement while Strether wondered if his revived interest were what had taken him, with strange inconsequence, over to London.