So sometimes they sat silent, and sometimes by fits and starts they talked, their lips close to each other's face, as though they were whispering to one another.
To while away the weary time, Morris told his companion about his invention, the aerophone.

Then she in turn told him something of her previous life--Stella was now a woman of four and twenty.

It seemed that her mother had died when she was fourteen at the rectory in Northumberland, where she was born.

After that, with short intervals, she had spent five years in Denmark, whither her father came to visit her every summer.

Most of this time she passed at a school in Copenhagen, going for her holidays to stay with her grandmother, who was the widow of a small landowner of noble family, and lived in an ancient, dilapidated house in some remote village.