So I'm square.

I'm ready for them." She neglected certain parts of this speech in the interest of others.
"Marie said to me the other day that she felt him to have the makings of an immense man of business." "There it is.

He's the son of his father!" "But SUCH a father!" "Ah just the right one from that point of view! But it isn't his father in him," Strether added, "that troubles me." "What is it then ?" He came back to his breakfast; he partook presently of the charming melon, which she liberally cut for him; and it was only after this that he met her question.

Then moreover it was but to remark that he'd answer her presently.

She waited, she watched, she served him and amused him, and it was perhaps with this last idea that she soon reminded him of his having never even yet named to her the article produced at Woollett.