"Yes, and even when the man is! There's always a caution in such cases," she more seriously explained--"for what it may seem to show.

There's nothing that's taken as showing so much here as sudden unnatural goodness." "Ah then you're speaking now," Strether said, "of people who are NOT nice." "I delight," she replied, "in your classifications.

But do you want me," she asked, "to give you in the matter, on this ground, the wisest advice I'm capable of?
Don't consider her, don't judge her at all in herself.

Consider her and judge her only in Chad." He had the courage at least of his companion's logic.

"Because then I shall like her ?" He almost looked, with his quick imagination as if he already did, though seeing at once also the full extent of how little it would suit his book.