Also that he is of prepossessing exterior, of agreeable manners, of considerable cultivation, and apparently of no acquaintance.

But what I can't make out is: what he does for a living, how he came to be half-starved on his walking tour--the doctor said so, you remember--where he was going from and where he is going to when he leaves our house.

In fact, he seems to be a very vague and mysterious person, of whom, for a woman of your character and peculiar training, you know singularly little." Miss Winwood replied that she could not pry into the lad's private affairs.

Her brother retorted that a youth, in his physically helpless condition, who was really ingenuous, would have poured out his life's history into the ears of so sympathetic a woman, and have bored her to tears with the inner secrets of his soul.
"He has high aspirations.

He has told me of them.