et, none the
less, so far as they made his opportunity they made it only for a
moment. She'd moreover understand--she always understood.

That indeed might be, but meanwhile she was going on. "There's nothing,
you know, I wouldn't do for you."

"Oh yes--I know."

"There's nothing," she repeated, "in all the world."

"I know. I know. But all the same I must go." He had got it at last.
"To be right."

"To be right?"

She had echoed it in vague deprecation, but he felt it already clear
for her. "That, you see, is my only logic. Not, out of the whole
affair, to have got anything for myself."

She thought. "But with your wonderful impressions you'll have got a
great deal."

"A great deal"--he agreed. "But nothing like YOU. It's you who would
make me wrong!"

Honest and fine, she couldn't greatly pretend she didn't see it. Still
she could pretend just a little. "But why should you be so dreadfully
right?"

"That's the way that--if I must go--you yourself would be the first to
want me. And I can't do anything else."

So then she had to take it, though still with her defeated protest. "It
isn't so much your BEING 'right'--it's your horrible sharp eye for what
makes you so."

"Oh but you're just as bad yourself. You can't resist me when I point
that out."

She sighed it at last all comically, all tragically, away. "I can't
indeed resist you."

"Then there we are!" said Strether.

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