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He foresaw that Miss Gostrey would come again into requisition on the morrow; though it wasn't to be denied that he was already a little afraid of her "What on earth that's what I want to know now had you then supposed?" He recognised at last that he had really been trying all along to suppose nothing. Verily, verily, his labour had been lost.
"Perfectly, I think; so that he was amazed to find the hand I had laid on him to pull him over suddenly converted into an engine for keeping him still." It was an account of the matter Miss Gostrey could weigh. "Does he think the conversion sudden?" "Well," said Strether, "I'm not altogether sure what he thinks.
The thing indeed really unmistakeable was its rolling over him as a wave that he had been, in conditions incalculable and unimaginable, a subject of discussion. He had been, on some ground that concerned her, answered for; which gave her an advantage he should never be able to match. "Hasn't Miss Gostrey," she asked, "said a good word for me?"
"That, I mean, is what will happen and happen as quickly as possible in consequence of Chad's cable. They'll simply embark. Sarah will come to speak for her mother with an effect different from MY muddle." Miss Gostrey more gravely wondered. "SHE then will take him back?" "Very possibly and we shall see. She must at any rate have the chance, and she may be trusted to do all she can."
Then he came out with the point he had wished after all most to make. "It seems to give away now his game. This is what he has been doing keeping me along for. He has been waiting for them." Miss Gostrey drew in her lips. "You see a good deal in it!" "I doubt if I see as much as you. Do you pretend," he went on, "that you don't see ?" "Well, what?" she pressed him as he paused.
They must want him" he had already worked it out "to be better off. Almost any girl he may marry will have a direct interest in his taking up his chances. It won't suit HER at least that he shall miss them." Miss Gostrey cast about. "No you reason well! But of course on the other hand there's always dear old Woollett itself." "Oh yes," he mused "there's always dear old Woollett itself."
"Are you so sorry for her as that?" It made her think a moment made her even speak with a smile. But she didn't really retract. "I'm sorry for us all!" He was to delay no longer to re-establish communication with Chad, and we have just seen that he had spoken to Miss Gostrey of this intention on hearing from her of the young man's absence.
She had elected, as they said, to see little Bilham once; but now she had seen him twice and had nevertheless not said more than a word. Waymarsh meanwhile sat opposite him with their hostess between; and Miss Gostrey spoke of herself as an instructor of youth introducing her little charges to a work that was one of the glories of literature.
This was one of the things the "all" Miss Gostrey would now tell him that, with every deference to present preoccupation, was uppermost for Strether after they had taken their seat. One of the others was, at the end of five minutes, that she oh incontestably, yes DIFFERED less; differed, that is, scarcely at all well, superficially speaking, from Mrs. Newsome or even from Mrs. Pocock.
But by that time Miss Gostrey was convinced that she didn't want to be better than Strether. Those occasions on which Strether was, in association with the exile from Milrose, to see the sacred rage glimmer through would doubtless have their due periodicity; but our friend had meanwhile to find names for many other matters.
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