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Remember," Strether went on, "that that's what you originally asked ME to have. I've had it, you see, and you see what has come of it. Stay on with me." Chad looked grave. "How much longer?" "Well, till I make you a sign. I can't myself, you know, at the best, or at the worst, stay for ever. Let the Pococks come," Strether repeated. "Because it gains you time?" "Yes it gains me time."
"And do you WANT that?" "Of course," said Strether, "I want it. I want to play fair." But she had lost for a moment the thread. "If it devolves on the Pococks why do you stay?" "Just to see that I DO play fair and a little also, no doubt, that they do." Strether was luminous as he had never been.
Was this contribution of the real possibly the mission of the Pococks? had they come to make the work of observation, as HE had practised observation, crack and crumble, and to reduce Chad to the plain terms in which honest minds could deal with him? Had they come in short to be sane where Strether was destined to feel that he himself had only been silly?
"What in the name of all the Pococks have you managed to do?" "Why exactly the wrong thing. I've made a frantic friend of little Bilham." "Ah that sort of thing was of the essence of your case and to have been allowed for from the first." And it was only after this that, quite as a minor matter, she asked who in the world little Bilham might be.
He almost wondered if he didn't LOOK demoralised and disreputable; he had the fanciful vision, as he sat and smoked, of some accidental, some motived, return of the Pococks, who would be passing along the Boulevard and would catch this view of him. They would have distinctly, on his appearance, every ground for scandal.
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