[The Ambassadors by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ambassadors BOOK Sixth 151/173
"I've stopped him.
That is for the time.
That"-- he gave it to her more vividly--"is where I am." "I see, I see.
But where's Mr.Newsome? He was ready," she asked, "to go ?" "All ready." "And sincerely--believing YOU'D be ?" "Perfectly, I think; so that he was amazed to find the hand I had laid on him to pull him over suddenly converted into an engine for keeping him still." It was an account of the matter Miss Gostrey could weigh.
"Does he think the conversion sudden ?" "Well," said Strether, "I'm not altogether sure what he thinks.
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