The war did not seem greatly to interest Oro.

It was, he remarked, but a small affair compared to those which he had known in the old days.

Then he departed, and I went to sleep.
Next night he appeared again, and, after talking a little on different subjects, remarked quietly that he had been thinking over what I had said as to his visiting the modern world, and intended to act upon the suggestion.
"When ?" I asked.
"Now," he said.

"I am going to visit this England of yours and the town you call London, and you will accompany me." "It is not possible!" I exclaimed.

"We have no ship." "We can travel without a ship," said Oro.
I grew alarmed, and suggested that Bastin or Bickley would be a much better companion than I should in my present weak state.
"An empty-headed man, or one who always doubts and argues, would be useless," he replied sharply.