But her being really grand is somehow just what hasn't seemed to simplify our case.

Nothing," she continued, "is further from me than to wish to say a word against her; but of course I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything.

No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman." This was a proposition Strether couldn't contradict.

"And yet what other way could I have expressed to her what I felt?
It's what there was most to say about you." "Do you mean then that she WILL be good to me ?" "It's what I'm waiting to see.

But I've little doubt she would," he added, "if she could comfortably see you." It seemed to strike her as a happy, a beneficent thought.