The sense of that produced in her a nameless depression thenceforward.

The young man, however, still followed her up.
'I am glad to hear you say it,' he returned warmly.

'I was merely attuning myself to your mood, as I thought.

The real truth is that I know more of the Parthians, and Medes, and dwellers in Mesopotamia--almost of any people, indeed--than of the English rustics.

Travel and exploration are my profession, not the study of the British peasantry.' Travel.