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They could easily make him irrelevant. The oddity, the originality, the poetry he didn't know what to call it of Chad's connexion reaffirmed for him its romantic side. "They ought to see this, you know. They MUST." "The Pococks?" she looked about in deprecation; she seemed to see gaps he didn't. "Mamie and Sarah Mamie in particular." "My shabby old place? But THEIR things !" "Oh their things!
He had but to listen to Chad at this moment to feel it; for Chad was in the act of remarking to him that they of course both counted on him he himself and the other earnest person for cheer and support. It was brave to Strether to hear him talk as if the line of wisdom they had struck out was to make things ravishing to the Pococks.
It was a wonder, no doubt, that the taste of idleness for him shouldn't need more time to sweeten; but it had in fact taken the few previous days; it had been sweetening in truth ever since the retreat of the Pococks.
It made his companion take several more steps. "Then YOU'RE not afraid." "Afraid to go?" Strether pulled up again. "Afraid to stay." The young man looked brightly amazed. "You want me now to 'stay'?" "If I don't immediately sail the Pococks will immediately come out. That's what I mean," said Strether, "by your mother's ultimatum ." Chad showed a still livelier, but not an alarmed interest.
An ideal rigour would perhaps postpone the trial till after the Pococks had shown their spirit; and it was to an ideal rigour that he had quite promised himself to conform. Suddenly, however, on this particular day, he felt a particular fear under which everything collapsed.
The only tone he aimed at with confidence was a full tone which was necessarily difficult in the absence of a full knowledge. The Pococks were a quantity as yet unmeasured, and, as he had practically brought them over, so this witness had to that extent exposed himself. He wanted to feel right about it, but could only, at the best, for the time, feel vague.
I call it, all the same, immense fun," Maria Gostrey declared; "and to see you work it out will be one of the sensations of my life. It IS clear you can toddle alone!" He received this tribute without elation. "I shan't be alone when the Pococks have come." Her eyebrows went up. "The Pococks are coming?"
This was all in the sense and the spirit of the note struck by him on that lady's arrival; he had taken at the station itself a line that led him without a break, and that enabled him to lead the Pococks though dazed a little, no doubt, breathless, no doubt, and bewildered to the uttermost end of the passage accepted by them perforce as pleasant.
There, if it were so, he continued for the rest of the time to be, and it was as if to show her how she could still serve him that, coming back to the departure of the Pococks, he gave her the view, vivid with a hundred more touches than we can reproduce, of what had happened for him that morning.
"Why if she sends out the Pococks it will be that she doesn't trust you, and if she doesn't trust you, that bears upon well, you know what." Strether decided after a moment that he did know what, and in consonance with this he spoke. "You see then all the more what you owe me." "Well, if I do see, how can I pay?" "By not deserting me. By standing by me."
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