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"I happen to know from Chad, whom I saw last night that they've come back; but only yesterday. He wasn't sure up to the last. This, accordingly," little Bilham went on, "will be if they ARE here their first appearance after their return." Strether, very quickly, turned these things over. "Chad told you last night? To me, on our way here, he said nothing about it." "But did you ask him?"
Newsome herself was as much of one. Little Bilham verily had testified that they came out, the ladies of the type, in close quarters; but it was just in these quarters now comparatively close that he felt Madame de Vionnet's common humanity. She did come out, and certainly to his relief, but she came out as the usual thing.
He recognised them at the same moment as those of little Bilham, who had apparently drawn near on purpose to speak to him, and little Bilham wasn't, in the conditions, the person to whom his heart would be most closed.
"If I ask you about some of the ladies it can't be then that I may hope, as such a specimen of the rococo, to please them." "On the contrary they adore we all adore here the rococo, and where is there a better setting for it than the whole thing, the pavilion and the garden, together? There are lots of people with collections," little Bilham smiled as he glanced round. "You'll be secured!"
"Well?" she asked while the image held him. "Well, is Chad what shall I say? monstrous?" "Oh as much as you like! But the idea you speak of," she said, "won't have been his best. He'll have a better. It won't be all through little Bilham that he'll work it." This already sounded almost like a hope destroyed. "Through whom else then?" "That's what we shall see!"
"And what torment to call a torment can there ever possibly be with a woman like that?" As if from the interest of his own question Strether had gone on without hearing. "Is it for her to have turned a man out so wonderfully, too, only for somebody else?" He appeared to make a point of this, and little Bilham looked at him now.
But I'm not sure," said little Bilham, "that I didn't like him about as well in his other state." "Then this IS really a new state altogether?" "Well," the young man after a moment returned, "I'm not sure he was really meant by nature to be quite so good.
"Yes, but that's only because he's rich and because there's a possibility of his being richer. They won't think of anything but a great name or a great fortune." "Well," said Strether, "he'll have no great fortune on THESE lines. He must stir his stumps." "Is that," little Bilham enquired, "what you were saying to Madame de Vionnet?" "No I don't say much to her.
"Why little Bilham to begin with." He kept back for the moment Miss Barrace. "And Chad when he comes you must absolutely see." "When then does he come?" "When Bilham has had time to write him, and hear from him about me. Bilham, however," he pursued, "will report favourably favourably for Chad. That will make him not afraid to come. I want you the more therefore, you see, for my bluff."
Of the damage that this would entail for the picture of his brooding mind I have spoken already; but suppose the book to have taken the form of autobiography, and suppose that Strether has brought the story up to this point, where he sits beside little Bilham in Gloriani's garden.
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