The train had stopped.

'Penhurst ?' she said.
'Penhurst is the next station,' said the gentleman.

Here was a theme for him! The stately mansion, the noble grounds, and Sidney! He discoursed of them.
The handsome lady appeared interested.

She was interested also by his description of a neighbouring village, likely one hundred years hence to be a place of pilgrimage for Americans and for Australians.

Age, he said, improves true beauty; and his eyelids indicated a levelling to perform the soft intentness.