"If I had only had you to explain things to me in America!" he said.

"I was rather puzzled in your country; in fact I was quite bewildered, and the trouble was that the explanations only puzzled me more.

You know I think they often gave me the wrong ones on purpose; they're rather clever about that over there.

But when I explain you can trust me; about what I tell you there's no mistake." There was no mistake at least about his being very intelligent and cultivated and knowing almost everything in the world.

Although he gave the most interesting and thrilling glimpses Isabel felt he never did it to exhibit himself, and though he had had rare chances and had tumbled in, as she put it, for high prizes, he was as far as possible from making a merit of it.