"Do you give me your word of honour that if she once has him there she won't do her best to marry him ?" It made her companion, this enquiry, look again a while out at the view; after which he spoke without sharpness.

"When she sees for herself what he is--" But she had already broken in.

"It's when she sees for herself what he is that she'll want to marry him most." Strether's attitude, that of due deference to what she said, permitted him to attend for a minute to his luncheon.

"I doubt if that will come off.

It won't be easy to make it." "It will be easy if he remains there--and he'll remain for the money.
The money appears to be, as a probability, so hideously much." "Well," Strether presently concluded, "nothing COULD really hurt you but his marrying." She gave a strange light laugh.