It was just a revelation, and then I bolted straight off to Alexandra City.' 'Which seems rather odd, doesn't it, in the circumstances ?' 'No, it's this way.

I had to take a few days for getting over the shock--for rubbing in the fact that what I wanted more than anything on God's earth, now I'd seen it, was utterly beyond my reach.' 'One might think I was an enchanted princess--a sort of Brunhilda guarded by a fiery dragon.' 'That's a good bit of how I looked on you--though I've never made much out of Wagner--he isn't human enough for me....

And how could I have dreamed then that you'd ever let me come as near you as I am this evening!' 'I must say, Mr McKeith, you haven't shown such extreme diffidence in approaching me.' 'Ah! Because you soon showed that Brunhilda's dragon was only pasteboard and blue fire after all--one of the shams you despise.

I'm not afraid of him now....

Oh, it's wonderful....