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If Madame de Vionnet, under Sarah's eyes, had pulled him into her boat, there was by this time no doubt whatever that he had remained in it and that what he had really most been conscious of for many hours together was the movement of the vessel itself.
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.
She spoke as to Strether, but her face was turned with an intensity of brightness to Madame de Vionnet, and there was a moment during which, while she thus fronted her, our friend expected to hear her add: "I'm much obliged to you, I'm sure, for inviting me there."
Madame de Vionnet was already on the field, and this gave the drama a quicker pace than he felt it as yet though his suspense had increased in the power of any act of his own to do. He had spent the previous evening with all his old friends together yet he would still have described himself as quite in the dark in respect to a forecast of their influence on his situation.
"Then," said Madame de Vionnet, "tell Mrs. Newsome that!" He wondered the more. "What good will that do you?" As she appeared unable at once to say, however, he brought out something else. "Is your daughter in love with our friend?" "Ah," she rather startlingly answered, "I wish you'd find out!" He showed his surprise. "I? A stranger?" "Oh you won't be a stranger presently.
Pocock?" "Certainly. Her curiosity, if nothing else, will in any case work that. But leave it all to Chad." "Ah," wailed Madame de Vionnet, turning away a little wearily, "the things I leave to Chad!" The tone of it made him look at her with a kindness that showed his vision of her suspense. But he fell back on his confidence. "Oh well trust him. Trust him all the way."
It came to him in the current of thought, as things so oddly did come, that HE had never risen with the lark to attend a brilliant woman to the Marche aux Fleurs; this could be fastened on him in connexion neither with Miss Gostrey nor with Madame de Vionnet; the practice of getting up early for adventures could indeed in no manner be fastened on him.
You may, you see, at any rate," she pursued, "have nobody else. Madame de Vionnet may very well be going off, mayn't she? and Mr. Newsome by the same stroke: unless indeed you've had an assurance from them to the contrary. So that if your idea's to stay for them" it was her duty to suggest it "you may be left in the lurch.
Well, that was all right so far as it went; his sense of the thing in question covered our friend for a minute like a veil through which as if he had been muffled he heard his interlocutor ask him if he mightn't take him over about five. "Over" was over the river, and over the river was where Madame de Vionnet lived, and five was that very afternoon.
But Chad, now that he has seen, doesn't really want it." She could believe that, but she made, as always, for clearness. "Still, what, after all, HAS he seen?" "What they want of him. And it's enough." "It contrasts so unfavourably with what Madame de Vionnet wants?" "It contrasts just so; all round, and tremendously." "Therefore, perhaps, most of all with what YOU want?"
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