"I saw it." "I am sorry to hear it--very sorry.

At any rate there was the beautiful woman--the Khania--for I saw her plenty of times afterwards, and talked to her in my best modern Greek--by the way, Ayesha knew the old Greek; that's curious." "She knew several of the ancient tongues, and so did other people.

Go on." "Well, she nursed me very kindly, but, so far as I know, until last night there was nothing more affectionate, and I had sense enough to refuse to talk about our somewhat eventful past.

I pretended not to understand, said that we were explorers, etc., and kept asking her where you were, for I forgot to say I found that you had gone.

I think that she grew rather angry with me, for she wanted to know something, and, as you can guess, I wanted to know a good deal.