"And isn't my signal to start just what you've been waiting for ?" Strether debated; he took another turn.

"This last month I've been awaiting, I think, more than anything else, the message I have here." "You mean you've been afraid of it ?" "Well, I was doing my business in my own way.

And I suppose your present announcement," Strether went on, "isn't merely the result of your sense of what I've expected.

Otherwise you wouldn't have put me in relation--" But he paused, pulling up.
At this Chad rose.

"Ah HER wanting me not to go has nothing to do with it! It's only because she's afraid--afraid of the way that, over there, I may get caught.