What was in the girl was indeed too soft, too unknown for direct dealing; so that one could only gaze at it as at a picture, quite staying one's own hand.

But with Chad he was now on ground--Chad he could meet; so pleasant a confidence in that and in everything did the young man freely exhale.

There was the whole of a story in his tone to his companion, and he spoke indeed as if already of the family.

It made Strether guess the more quickly what it might be about which Madame de Vionnet was so urgent.

Having seen him then she had found him easy; she wished to have it out with him that some way for the young people must be discovered, some way that would not impose as a condition the transplantation of her daughter.