So it puts the mother out.

SHE'S too old for him." Strether, arrested again, considered and demurred.

"Do you think so?
Do you think any one would be too old for him?
I'M eighty, and I'm too young.

But perhaps the girl," he continued, "ISn't twenty.

Perhaps she's only ten--but such a little dear that Chad finds himself counting her in as an attraction of the acquaintance.