Would you like old Dr.Jeffreys, the clergyman ?" "No," she replied, with quiet firmness, "I know him; he took me in once before.

I wish Mr.Allan Quatermain to take me in.

He is interesting, and I want to hear about Africa." "Very well," he answered, "and he _is_ more interesting than all the rest put together.

But, Luna, why are you always thinking and talking about Africa?
One might imagine that you were going to live there." "So I may one day," she answered dreamily.

"Who knows where one has lived, or where one will live!" And again I saw that mystic look come into her face.
I heard no more of that conversation, which it is improbable that anyone whose ears had not been sharpened by a lifetime of listening in great silences would have caught at all.