"What do you mean by Miss Gertrude being strong ?" he asked abruptly.
"Well," said Felix meditatively, "I mean that she has had a great deal of self-possession.

She was waiting--for years; even when she seemed, perhaps, to be living in the present.

She knew how to wait; she had a purpose.

That 's what I mean by her being strong." "But what do you mean by her purpose ?" "Well--the purpose to see the world!" Mr.Brand eyed his strange informant askance again; but he said nothing.
At last he turned away, as if to take leave.

He seemed bewildered, however; for instead of going to the door he moved toward the opposite corner of the room.