I'm not sure of anything that concerns him, except that the more I've seen of him the less I've found him what I originally expected.

He's obscure, and that's why I'm waiting." She wondered.

"But for what in particular ?" "For the answer to his cable." "And what was his cable ?" "I don't know," Strether replied; "it was to be, when he left me, according to his own taste.

I simply said to him: 'I want to stay, and the only way for me to do so is for you to.' That I wanted to stay seemed to interest him, and he acted on that." Miss Gostrey turned it over.

"He wants then himself to stay." "He half wants it.