"Yes, but if the more I see the better he seems ?" Well, she found something.

"That may be--but his disavowal of her isn't, all the same, pure consideration.

There's a hitch." She made it out.

"It's the effort to sink her." Strether winced at the image.

"To 'sink'-- ?" "Well, I mean there's a struggle, and a part of it is just what he hides.