But the stranger, by the very fact of his belonging to that other world, had stimulated her desire for those things which in her home life and environment she so greatly missed.

He had somehow seemed to magnify the almost unbearable commonplace narrowness of her daily routine.

He had made her even more restless, disturbed and dissatisfied.

It had been to her as when one in some foreign country meets a citizen from one's old home town.

And for this Kitty was genuinely sorry.