But that was before I met you--do you remember ?--in the inn at La Grave." Violet Oliver looked curiously at Linforth--curiously, and rather quickly.

But it seemed that he at all events did not remember that he had not come alone down to La Grave.
"It isn't that I have come to care less for the Road," he went on.

"Not by one jot.

Rather, indeed, I care more.

But I can't dissociate you from the Road.