"Do you mean that you are an official ?" "I am an engineer--in charge of some construction work in the Rockies." Lady Merton's face brightened.
"Indeed! I think that must be one of the most interesting things in the world to be." The Canadian's eyebrows lifted a little.
"I don't know that I ever thought of it like that," he said, half smiling.

"It's good work--but I've done things a good deal livelier in my time." "You've not always been an engineer ?" "Very few people are always 'anything' in Canada," he said, laughing.
"It's like the States.

One tries a lot of things.

Oh, I was trained as an engineer--at Montreal.

But directly I had finished with that I went off to Klondyke.