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`` Well , there can certainly be no way for it better than by my taking the onus . It reduces your personal friction and your personal offence to almost nothing . '' Ah but Chad , with his completer conception of the friendly , would n't quite have this ! They had remained on the balcony , where , after their day of great and premature heat , the midnight air was delicious ; and they leaned back in turn against the balustrade , all in harmony with the chairs and the flower-pots , the cigarettes and the starlight . `` The onus is n't _ really _ yours -- after our agreeing so to wait together and judge together . That was all my answer to Sally , '' Chad pursued -- `` that we have been , that we are , just judging together . '' `` I 'm not afraid of the burden , '' Strether explained ; `` I have n't come in the least that you should take it off me .