"I saw that," said Miss Gostrey, "that night at the Francais; it came out for me in three minutes.

I saw HER--or somebody like her.

And so," she immediately added, "did you." "Oh no--not anybody like her!" Strether laughed.

"But you mean," he as promptly went on, "that she has had such an influence on him ?" Miss Gostrey was on her feet; it was time for them to go.

"She has brought him up for her daughter." Their eyes, as so often, in candid conference, through their settled glasses, met over it long; after which Strether's again took in the whole place.