I felt a strange emotion of almost sacred tenderness at this companionship.

We, strangers from a far and fallen land, stood together and alone in that temple of our country's deity: was it not natural that my heart should yearn to my countrywoman, for so I might surely call her?
I felt as if I had known her for years; and that simple rite seemed, as by a miracle, to operate on the sympathies and ties of time.

Silently we left the temple, and I was about to ask her where she dwelt, and if I might be permitted to visit her, when a youth, in whose features there was some kindred resemblance to her own, and who stood upon the steps of the fane, took her by the hand.

She turned round and bade me farewell.

The crowd separated us: I saw her no more.