"SHE then will take him back ?" "Very possibly--and we shall see.

She must at any rate have the chance, and she may be trusted to do all she can." "And do you WANT that ?" "Of course," said Strether, "I want it.

I want to play fair." But she had lost for a moment the thread.

"If it devolves on the Pococks why do you stay ?" "Just to see that I DO play fair--and a little also, no doubt, that they do." Strether was luminous as he had never been.

"I came out to find myself in presence of new facts--facts that have kept striking me as less and less met by our old reasons.