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"I haven't," she smiled. "But do you suppose then little Bilham has lied?" "You must find out." It made him almost turn pale. "Find out any MORE?" He had dropped on a sofa for dismay; but she seemed, as she stood over him, to have the last word. "Wasn't what you came out for to find out ALL?"
But as we were again saying just now, what did I come out for but to save him?" "Yes to remove him." "To save him by removal; to win him over to HIMSELF thinking it best he shall take up business thinking he must immediately do therefore what's necessary to that end." "Well," said little Bilham after a moment, "you HAVE won him over. He does think it best.
The remark had been at first surprising and our friend's private thought, under the influence of it, temporarily blighted; yet we are able to add that he presently recovered his inward tone and that many a fresh flower of fancy was to bloom in the same air. Little Bilham since little Bilham was, somewhat incongruously, expected appeared behindhand; a circumstance by which Strether was to profit.
If Strether had been sure at each juncture of what with Bilham in especial she talked about, he might have traced others and winced at them and felt Waymarsh wince; but he was in fact so often at sea that his sense of the range of reference was merely general and that he on several different occasions guessed and interpreted only to doubt.
Admiration was of itself almost accusatory, but nothing less would serve to show her how nearly he understood. He put out his hand for good-bye with a "Splendid, splendid, splendid!" And he left her, in her splendour, still waiting for little Bilham.
Chad," little Bilham loyally went on, "has really been as kind to her as possible. It's awkward for a man when a girl's in love with him." "Ah but she isn't now." Little Bilham sat staring before him; then he sprang up as if his friend's penetration, recurrent and insistent, made him really after all too nervous. "No she isn't now. It isn't in the least," he went on, "Chad's fault.
Little Bilham once more pervaded the scene, but little Bilham became even in a higher degree than he had originally been one of the numerous forms of the inclusive relation; a consequence promoted, to our friend's sense, by two or three incidents with which we have yet to make acquaintance.
He doesn't ask questions. "Ah doesn't he?" Strether laughed. Bilham met it with all his candour. "How then should I be here? "Oh for what you tell me. You're part of the perfect choice." Well, the young man took in the scene. "It seems rather good to-day." Strether followed the direction of his eyes. "Are they all, this time, femmes du monde?" Little Bilham showed his competence. "Pretty well."
"Of course what it has done for him," Strether at all events presently pursued, "of course what it has done for him that is as to HOW it has so wonderfully worked isn't a thing I pretend to understand. I've to take it as I find it. There he is." "There he is!" little Bilham echoed. "And it's really and truly she. I don't understand either, even with my longer and closer opportunity.
"When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them." Then he threw off as with an extravagance of which he was conscious: "Let them face the future together!" Little Bilham looked at him indeed. "You mean that after all he shouldn't go back?" "I mean that if he gives her up !" "Yes?" "Well, he ought to be ashamed of himself."
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