said now you ll feel a lot better i saw there was something wrong with you from the start which needed breaking up now suppose you quit inadequate inventions and just tell the truth unfortunately i have done so already mr said the lady paused a moment her face full of inquiry and doubt honest the term was not familiar to her but he judged it to be of the nature of an and assented and do you mean to tell me that for all those years you went through that every day i had my sundays answered and since their invention my bank holidays i got three weeks holiday in the summer formerly a fortnight laughter had speedily and his mood returning upon him found a certain bitter enjoyment in setting forth the extreme of his life before this light hearted piece of womanhood again he her with the absurd and exquisite little dogs as something superfluous out of relation to sad and sober realities and yet you manage to look as you do it beats me declared i tell you it me out of time completely for if you ll excuse my being personal there is an air about you not usually by an stool � at least in my experience where do you get it from you can t be english i am a by mr said with a slight lift of the head the far horizon there now my dear man don t you go and up again we were just beginning to get along so nicely put in quickly i am having a capital good time and you re not having an altogether bad one are you but tell me how long ago were you extracted very long ago i was brought to england as a baby child oh i didn t mean it that way she returned i was not touching on the subject of age not that it would matter much in your case for you are one of the lucky sort with whom age does not count i only meant are you an all round foreigner practically � my mother was partly irish looked away to those wooded slopes of and against the gloom of which the home of station � hard white lines and angles tipped with scarlet and black � stood out like the gigantic characters of some strange the air was sweet with the scent of new hay the birds up and down the bushes and it was all very charming yet that same and distrust of the future were very present to he forgot all about his companion aware only that those two guests old age and loneliness stood close beside him claiming and entertainment ah your mother said slowly with the slightest perceptible of mockery and she is alive still turned upon the poor lady of the dust fiercely she had come too close come from her proper place � were not her lips painted � behind the and laid her hands upon that which was holy he was filled with anger towards the far horizon her � anger towards himself too that he should have departed from his habitual silence and submitted to be cross questioned and listened to her feather headed so long he rose to his feet for the moment young alert full of a pride at once and forbid he said sternly dear saint and martyr she is safe from all at last she is dead he stood a moment trying to choke down his anger before addressing her again it is time i should go he said presently i think we have talked enough but st john presented a singular appearance all the audacity had departed from her she sat huddled together looking very small and desolate her eyes � the one noble feature of her face � swimming with tears no no don t go she cried in tones of entreaty why should you go i like you and i meant no harm i ve had the day and meeting you was a let up you did me good somehow was quite right in taking to you i only wanted to know about you because � well you are different don t tell me i know what i am talking about you re straight you re good right through the words were poured forth so rapidly that hardly gathered the exact purport of them but one thing was clear to him � namely that this frivolous and being must be human after all since she could suffer don t go she repeated i m miserable i ll explain i ll tell you just sit down again it would be awfully kind you see i ve been expecting a friend it was all important i should see him to day because there were things to be said i ve been awake half the night the far horizon up my courage to saying them and then he never turned up i got nerves waiting hour after hour � anybody would waiting like that and i began to imagine every kind of disaster swallowed a little and her against her eyes i shall be all right in a minute she went on do sit down please you say you re nobody and have nothing to do so you can t very well be in a hurry i am like this sometimes it s awfully silly but i can t help it some rotten trifle sets me off and then i can t stop myself i begin to go over all my worst luck � doesn t it occur to you there s no earthly good in standing it me to talk loud and it s stupid to take all common into our confidence thanks that s very nice of you � well you see when fm like his the flood gates of memory are opened � which sounds pretty enough but the is strictly 