He wants to eat them all." "Were you so very solitary as a child ?" he asked her, gently, in a changed tone, which was itself an act of homage, almost a caress.
"Yes--I was very solitary," she said, after a pause.

"And I am really gregarious--dreadfully fond of people!--and curious about them.

And I think, oddly enough, papa was too." A question rose naturally to his lips, but was checked unspoken.

He well remembered Mr.Mallory at Portofino; a pleasant courteous man, evidently by nature a man of the world, interested in affairs and in literature, with all the signs on him of the English governing class.

It was certainly curious that he should have spent all those years in exile with his child, in a remote villa on the Italian coast.