Give HER a free hand, would be the moral, and the woman would soon be found.
His impression of Miss Gostrey after her introduction to Chad was meanwhile an impression of a person almost unnaturally on her guard.

He struck himself as at first unable to extract from her what he wished; though indeed OF what he wished at this special juncture he would doubtless have contrived to make but a crude statement.

It sifted and settled nothing to put to her, tout betement, as she often said, "Do you like him, eh ?"--thanks to his feeling it actually the least of his needs to heap up the evidence in the young man's favour.

He repeatedly knocked at her door to let her have it afresh that Chad's case--whatever else of minor interest it might yield--was first and foremost a miracle almost monstrous.

It was the alteration of the entire man, and was so signal an instance that nothing else, for the intelligent observer, could--COULD it ?--signify.