Suddenly I realized what I had never realized before.
"Do you know," I said, as slowly as he himself had spoken, "I did not know that was true until you put it into words.

I am so used to thinking of them as different, somehow, that I suppose I do feel as if they were almost like another race, in a way.

Perhaps one would feel like that with a native Indian, or a Japanese." "I dare say that is a good simile," he reflected.

"Are they different when you know them well ?" "I have never known one but Wee Brown Elspeth," I answered, thinking it over.
He did start then, in the strangest way.
"What!" he exclaimed.

"What did you say ?" I was quite startled myself.