Whether he liked it or not, I had again no choice but to answer her.

"Some American girls, and some English," I said.
Her eyes opened wider and wider in unutterable expectation.

She suddenly advanced her face so close to mine, that I felt her hot breath on my cheeks as the next words burst their way through her lips.
"Born in England ?" "No.

Born at Tadmor." She dropped my arm.

The light died out of her eyes in an instant.