There at any rate the fact is--the fact of the possible.

I mean the money in it." "Oh damn the money in it!" said Strether.

And then as the young man's fixed smile seemed to shine out more strange: "Shall you give your friend up for the money in it ?" Chad preserved his handsome grimace as well as the rest of his attitude.

"You're not altogether--in your so great 'solemnity'-- kind.
Haven't I been drinking you in--showing you all I feel you're worth to me?
What have I done, what am I doing, but cleave to her to the death?
The only thing is," he good-humouredly explained, "that one can't but have it before one, in the cleaving--the point where the death comes in.

Don't be afraid for THAT.