"I wish I could drop it at the point we have reached now," he said.

"But she has left Tadmor; and, in justice to her (after the scandals in the newspaper), I must tell you how she left it, and why.

The mischief began when I was helping her out of the boat.

Two of our young women met us on the bank of the lake, and asked me how I got on with my fishing.

They didn't mean any harm--they were only in their customary good spirits.