? Is she too?«
    »So it strikes me - deeper than I thought. But wait a little - between us
we'll make it out. You'll judge for that matter yourself.«
    Madame de Vionnet looked for the moment fairly bent on the chance. »Then she
will come with her? - I mean Mamie with Mrs. 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.« He had indeed no sooner so spoken than the queer displacement
of his point of view appeared again to come up for him in the very sound, which
drew from him a short laugh, immediately checked. He became still more advisory.
»When they do come give them plenty of Miss Jeanne. Let Mamie see her well.«
    She looked for a moment as if she placed them face to face. »For Mamie to
hate her?«
    He had another of his corrective headshakes. »Mamie won't Trust them.«
    She looked at him hard, and then as if it were what she must always come
back to: »It's you I trust. But I was sincere,« she said, »at the hotel. I did,
I do, want my child -«
    »Well?« - Strether waited with deference while she appeared to hesitate as
to how to put it.
    »Well, to do what she can for me.«
    Strether for a little met her eyes on it; after which something that might
have been unexpected to her came from him. »Poor little duck!«
    Not more expected for himself indeed might well have been her echo of it.
»Poor little duck! But she immensely wants herself,« she said, »to see our
friend's cousin.«
    »Is that what she thinks her?«
    »It's what we call the young lady.«
    He thought again; then with a laugh: »Well, your daughter will help you.«
    And now at last he took leave of her, as he had been intending for five
minutes. But she went part of the way with him, accompanying him out of the room
and into the
