I went no further.

The solution would not come.

I felt that in order to play Hilda's part, it was necessary first to have Hilda's head-piece.

Not every man can bend the bow of Ulysses.
As I turned the problem over in my mind, however, one phrase at last came back to me--a phrase which Hilda herself had let fall when we were debating a very similar point about poor Hugo Le Geyt: "If I were in his place, what do you think I would do ?--why, hide myself at once in the greenest recesses of our Carnarvonshire mountains." She must have gone to Wales, then.

I had her own authority for saying so....