"I know that in Europe they have still the fight which we sought to settle when we left that country for this one." She nodded.

"So then, at last," she went on, "still young, having learned something and having now those means of carrying on my studies which I required, I came to this last of the countries, America, where, if anywhere, hope for mankind remains.

Washington has impressed me more than any capital of the world." "How long have you been in Washington ?" I asked.
"Now you begin to question--now you show at last curiosity! Well, then, I shall answer.

For more than one year, perhaps more than two, perhaps more than three!" "Impossible!" I shook my head.

"A woman like you could not be concealed--not if she owned a hundred hidden places such as this." "Oh, I was known," she said.