It was in fact an exposed condition that the young man left him in long enough for him to feel its chill--till he saw fit, in a word, generously again to cover him.

This last was in truth what Chad quite gracefully did.

But he did it as with a simple thought that met the whole of the case.

"Oh I'm all right!" It was what Strether had rather bewilderedly to go to bed on.
II It really looked true moreover from the way Chad was to behave after this.

He was full of attentions to his mother's ambassador; in spite of which, all the while, the latter's other relations rather remarkably contrived to assert themselves.