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The reader, all unawares, is placed in a better position for an understanding of Strether's history, better than the position of Strether himself. Using his eyes, we see what he sees, we are possessed of the material on which his patient thought sets to work; and that is so far well enough, and plainly necessary.
Miss Gostrey had in due course been perfect for such a step; she had known exactly what they wanted to go straight somewhere and talk; and Strether had even felt she had known what he wished to say and that he was arranging immediately to begin.
As that's really out of the question, I won't expose myself" a point at which, for reasons of his own, Strether ceased to press. He came round, for publicity it was the easiest thing to the idea that his smash WAS out of the question, and this rendered idle the discussion of what might follow it.
It's such an order, really, that before we cook you the dish we must at least have your receipt. Besides the poor chicks have time! What I've seen so often spoiled," she pursued, "is the happy attitude itself, the state of faith and what shall I call it? the sense of beauty. You're right about him" she now took in Strether; "little Bilham has them to a charm, we must keep little Bilham along."
She passed out as she spoke and took her way straight across the court, beyond which, separated from them by the deep arch of the porte-cochere the low victoria that had conveyed her from her own hotel was drawn up. She made for it with decision, and the manner of her break, the sharp shaft of her rejoinder, had an intensity by which Strether was at first kept in arrest.
They walked, wandered, wondered and, a little, lost themselves; Strether hadn't had for years so rich a consciousness of time a bag of gold into which he constantly dipped for a handful. It was present to him that when the little business with Mr. Bilham should be over he would still have shining hours to use absolutely as he liked.
Strether was conscious at this instant, for that matter, as he hadn't yet been, of how, round about him, quite without him, they WERE consistently settled.
Strether rambled alone during these few days, the effect of the incident of the previous week having been to simplify in a marked fashion his mixed relations with Waymarsh. Nothing had passed between them in reference to Mrs.
Strether saw how she had perceived in a flash that they couldn't quite look to going back there under his nose; though, honestly, as he gouged deeper into the matter, he was somewhat surprised, as Chad likewise had perhaps been, at the uprising of this scruple.
Finally placed, in Paris, in immediate presence of the situation and of the hero of it by whom Strether was incapable of meaning any one but Chad she had accomplished, and really in a manner all unexpected to herself, a change of base; deep still things had come to pass within her, and by the time she had grown sure of them Strether had become aware of the little drama.
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