I must say he's quite as attentive as I could wish, and at least I shall have seen one polite Englishman.

I keep telling Mr.Bantling that he ought to have been an American, and you should see how that pleases him.

Whenever I say so he always breaks out with the same exclamation--'Ah, but really, come now!" A few days later she wrote that she had decided to go to Paris at the end of the week and that Mr.Banding had promised to see her off--perhaps even would go as far as Dover with her.

She would wait in Paris till Isabel should arrive, Henrietta added; speaking quite as if Isabel were to start on her continental journey alone and making no allusion to Mrs.Touchett.
Bearing in mind his interest in their late companion, our heroine communicated several passages from this correspondence to Ralph, who followed with an emotion akin to suspense the career of the representative of the Interviewer.
"It seems to me she's doing very well," he said, "going over to Paris with an ex-Lancer! If she wants something to write about she has only to describe that episode." "It's not conventional, certainly," Isabel answered; "but if you mean that--as far as Henrietta is concerned--it's not perfectly innocent, you're very much mistaken.

You'll never understand Henrietta." "Pardon me, I understand her perfectly.