"Feel that he believes he can. It may come to the same thing!"
Strether laughed.

She wouldn't, however, have this. "Nothing for you will ever come
to the same thing as anything else." And she understood what she
meant, it seemed, sufficiently to go straight on. "You say that if
he does break he'll come in for things at home?"

"Quite positively. He'll come in for a particular chance--a chance
that any properly constituted young man would jump at. The
business has so developed that an opening scarcely apparent three
years ago, but which his father's will took account of as in
certain conditions possible and which, under that will, attaches
to Chad's availing himself of it a large contingent advantage--
this opening, the conditions having come about, now simply awaits
him. His mother has kept it for him, holding out against strong
pressure, till the last possible moment. It requires, naturally,
as it carries with it a handsome 'part,' a large share in profits,
his being on the spot and making a big effort for a big result.
That's what I mean by his chance. If he misses it he comes in, as
you say, for nothing. And to see that he doesn't miss it is, in a
word, what I've come out for."

She let it all sink in. "What you've come out for then is simply
to render him an immense service."

Well, poor Strether was willing to take it so. "Ah if you like."

"He stands, as they say, if you succeed with him, to gain--"