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At four o'clock that afternoon he had still not seen him, but he was then, as to make up for this, engaged in talk about him with Miss Gostrey. Strether had kept away from home all day, given himself up to the town and to his thoughts, wandered and mused, been at once restless and absorbed -- and all with the present climax of a rich little welcome in the Quartier Marbœuf. "Waymarsh has been, ‘unbeknown' to me, I'm convinced" -- for Miss Gostrey had enquired -- "in communication with Woollett: the consequence of which was, last night, the loudest possible call for me."
"Do you mean a letter to bring you home?"