In the instant, I had seen a face that was strange to me, looking up with an incomprehensible air of being touched and pleased by the sight of me.
Moving the lamp as the man moved, I made out that he was substantially dressed, but roughly, like a voyager by sea.

That he had long iron-gray hair.

That his age was about sixty.

That he was a muscular man, strong on his legs, and that he was browned and hardened by exposure to weather.

As he ascended the last stair or two, and the light of my lamp included us both, I saw, with a stupid kind of amazement, that he was holding out both his hands to me.
"Pray what is your business ?" I asked him.
"My business ?" he repeated, pausing.