Amazon.com description: Product Description: The young man, at this, bounced about, and it brought them face to face in admitted amusement. "You want me to marry as a convenience to Chad?" "No," Strether debated—"HE doesn't care whether you marry or not. It's as a convenience simply to my own plan FOR him." "'Simply'!"—and little Bilham's concurrence was in itself a lively comment. "Thank you. But I thought," he continued, "you had exactly NO plan 'for' him." "Well then call it my plan for myself—which may be well, as you say, to have none. His situation, don't you see? is reduced now to the bare facts one has to recognise. Mamie doesn't want him, and he doesn't want Mamie: so much as that these days have made clear. It's a thread we can wind up and tuck in." But little Bilham still questioned. "YOU can—since you seem so much to want to. But why should I?"