"I have heard things, but I should like to learn the truth from you.

What are your plans ?" Her eyes were burning with inquiry.

She was suddenly brought to the gateways of a new world.

Plans--what had she or her people to do with plans! What Romany ever constructed anything?
What did the building of a city or a country mean to a Romany 'chal' or a Romany 'chi', they who lived from field to field, from common to moor, from barn to city wall.

A Romany tent or a Romany camp, with its families, was the whole territory of their enterprise, designs and patriotism.