His arrival contributed, in its order, to keeping Strether in position; the result of which in turn was that Strether soon felt himself noticed.

The young man began to look at him as in acknowledgement of his being himself in observation.
This was interesting so far as it went, but the interest was affected by the young man's not being Chad.

Strether wondered at first if he were perhaps Chad altered, and then saw that this was asking too much of alteration.

The young man was light bright and alert--with an air too pleasant to have been arrived at by patching.

Strether had conceived Chad as patched, but not beyond recognition.