He has told them I want looking after." "And DO you ?"--she was all interest.
"Immensely.

And I shall get it." "By which you mean you don't budge ?" "I don't budge." "You've cabled ?" "No--I've made Chad do it." "That you decline to come ?" "That HE declines.

We had it out this morning and I brought him round.
He had come in, before I was down, to tell me he was ready--ready, I mean, to return.

And he went off, after ten minutes with me, to say he wouldn't." Miss Gostrey followed with intensity.

"Then you've STOPPED him ?" Strether settled himself afresh in his chair.