"I have often wondered." "You are, and you are not.

You are surprisingly conventional for these surroundings, and yet unconventionally surprising--for any place.

Who are you?
Where did you come from?
How did you get here ?" "I am just what you see.

I came from the States, and I was carried.
That is all I can remember." "Then you haven't lived here always ?" "Oh, dear, no! We came here while I was very little, but of late I have been away at school." "Some seminary, eh ?" At this she laughed aloud.

"Hardly that, either.