Well, where have you been this morning?
I saw you come in just now, I think!' 'Yes; I have been for a walk.' 'Start early ?' 'Yes.' 'Very early, I think ?' 'Yes, it was rather early.' 'Which way did you go?
To the sea, I suppose.

Everybody goes seaward.' 'No; I followed up the river as far as the park wall.' 'You are different from your kind.

Well, I suppose such a wild place is a novelty, and so tempted you out of bed ?' 'Not altogether a novelty.

I like it.' The youth seemed averse to explanation.
'You must, you must; to go cock-watching the morning after a journey of fourteen or sixteen hours.

But there's no accounting for tastes, and I am glad to see that yours are no meaner.