Where are you going?
That is the issue now before the house.

You persist in evading it." She smiled, and came back to earth.

"Oh, if you MUST know, to India, by the east coast, changing steamers at Aden." "Extraordinary!" I cried.

"Do you know, Hilda, as luck will have it, _I_ also shall be on my way to Bombay by the very same steamer!" "But you don't know what steamer it is ?" "No matter.

That only makes the coincidence all the odder.