I hadn't thought of coming to Germany till I met Miss Leach and heard about you.

Now I'm so far, I might as well go on into Italy, and make a round of it.

I wish you were coming too.' Alma made no reply.

He scrutinised her as before, and his features worked as if with some emotion.

Then, abruptly, he put a blunt question.
'Do you think people who go in for music, art, and that kind of thing, ought to marry ?' 'I never thought about it at all,' Alma replied, with a careless laugh, striking a finger across the strings of the violin which she held on her lap.
'We're generally told they shouldn't,' pursued Dymes, in a voice which had lost its noisy confidence, and was a little uncertain.