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He himself did what he hadn't done before; he took two or three times whole days off irrespective of others, of two or three taken with Miss Gostrey, two or three taken with little Bilham: he went to Chartres and cultivated, before the front of the cathedral, a general easy beatitude; he went to Fontainebleau and imagined himself on the way to Italy; he went to Rouen with a little handbag and inordinately spent the night.
And yet," he added, as if the question were interesting, "one feels others too, even when they have plenty." Miss Gostrey continued suggestive. "Madame de Vionnet?" "SHE has plenty." "Certainly she had quantities of old. But there are different ways of making one's self felt." "Yes, it comes, no doubt, to that. You now " He was benevolently going on, but she wouldn't have it.
He was not certain, however, of not drawing a shade of compensation from the privilege, as yet untasted, of knowing more about something in particular than Miss Gostrey did. His situation too was a case, for that matter, and he was now so interested, quite so privately agog, about it, that he had already an eye to the fun it would be to open up to her afterwards.
At the end of the twenty-four hours, at the end of the forty-eight, there was still no overture; so that Strether filled up the time, as he had so often filled it before, by going to see Miss Gostrey.
Strether gasped the name back then only had he seen Miss Gostrey had said more than she knew. They were in presence of Chad himself.
Miss Gostrey had a pause. "You mean she has fallen in love?" "I mean she wonders if she hasn't and it serves all her purpose." "It has indeed," Maria laughed, "served women's purposes before!" "Yes for giving in. But I doubt if the idea as an idea has ever up to now answered so well for holding out. That's HER tribute to the ideal we each have our own.
It was nothing new to him, however, as we know, that a man might have at all events such a man as he an amount of experience out of any proportion to his adventures; so that, though it was doubtless no great adventure to sit on there with Miss Gostrey and hear about Madame de Vionnet, the hour, the picture, the immediate, the recent, the possible as well as the communication itself, not a note of which failed to reverberate only gave the moments more of the taste of history.
Marchons, marchons!" said the young man gaily. His host, however, at this, but continued to stand agaze; and he had the next thing repeated his question of a moment before. "Has Miss Gostrey come back?" "Yes, two days ago." "Then you've seen her?" "No I'm to see her to-day." But Strether wouldn't linger now on Miss Gostrey. "Your mother sends me an ultimatum.
"In the midst of such doings and, as I understand you, profiting by them, she at least has remained exquisite?" "Oh I can't talk of her!" Strether said. "I thought she was just what you COULD talk of. You DON'T trust me," Miss Gostrey after a moment declared. It had its effect. "Well, her money is spent, her life conceived and carried on with a large beneficence "
Perhaps she's only ten but such a little dear that Chad finds himself counting her in as an attraction of the acquaintance. Perhaps she's only five. Perhaps the mother's but five-and-twenty a charming young widow." Miss Gostrey entertained the suggestion. "She IS a widow then?" "I haven't the least idea!"
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