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It's such an order, really, that before we cook you the dish we must at least have your receipt. Besides the poor chicks have time! What I've seen so often spoiled," she pursued, "is the happy attitude itself, the state of faith and what shall I call it? the sense of beauty. You're right about him" she now took in Strether; "little Bilham has them to a charm, we must keep little Bilham along."
He spent a long time on the balcony; he hung over it as he had seen little Bilham hang the day of his first approach, as he had seen Mamie hang over her own the day little Bilham himself might have seen her from below; he passed back into the rooms, the three that occupied the front and that communicated by wide doors; and, while he circulated and rested, tried to recover the impression that they had made on him three months before, to catch again the voice in which they had seemed then to speak to him.
It's doubtless she, however, who, as you yourself have hinted, feels it most." Little Bilham appeared to wonder what he had hinted. "Feels most that they're straight?" "Well, feels that SHE is, and the strength that comes from it. She keeps HIM up she keeps the whole thing up. When people are able to it's fine.
"If you talk of torments you don't diminish mine!" he then broke out. The next moment he was on his feet with a question. "He ought to marry whom?" Little Bilham rose more slowly. "Well, some one he CAN some thoroughly nice girl." Strether's eyes, as they stood together, turned again to Jeanne. "Do you mean HER?" His friend made a sudden strange face. "After being in love with her mother? No."
"It's awfully charming of you," Bilham presently remarked, "not to have asked me that before." "Oh I'm not fit for my job!" The exclamation had escaped our friend, but it made little Bilham more deliberate. "Chad's a rare case!" he luminously observed. "He's awfully changed," he added. "Then you see it too?" "The way he has improved? Oh yes I think every one must see it.
"I haven't seen them yet, but Miss Gostrey has come. She's in the pavilion looking at objects. One can see SHE'S a collector," little Bilham added without offence. "Oh yes, she's a collector, and I knew she was to come. Is Madame de Vionnet a collector?" Strether went on. "Rather, I believe; almost celebrated." The young man met, on it, a little, his friend's eyes.
And he wants to." "Wants to marry her?" Again little Bilham waited, and, with a sense that he had information, Strether scarce knew what was coming. "He wants to be free. He isn't used, you see," the young man explained in his lucid way, "to being so good." Strether hesitated. "Then I may take it from you that he IS good?" His companion matched his pause, but making it up with a quiet fulness.
This, he was well aware, was a dreadful necessity; but such was the stern logic, he could only gather, of a relation to the irregular life. It was the way the irregular life sat upon Bilham and Miss Barrace that was the insidious, the delicate marvel.
She hated, he knew, at the French play, anything but a box just as she hated at the English anything but a stall; and a box was what he was already in this phase girding himself to press upon her. But she had for that matter her community with little Bilham: she too always, on the great issues, showed as having known in time.
"Help you by thinking he should NOT marry?" "Not marry at all events Mamie." "And who then?" "Ah," Strether returned, "that I'm not obliged to say. But Madame de Vionnet I suggest when he can. "Oh!" said little Bilham with some sharpness. "Oh precisely! But he needn't marry at all I'm at any rate not obliged to provide for it. Whereas in your case I rather feel that I AM."
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