I wasn't disappointed then, though I am now.

Perhaps one really enjoys mountaineering best afterwards.

You like to think how adventurous you have been, but it's sometimes difficult while the adventure's going on." "That's true," Festing agreed.

"Still you feel sorry if, as we say, you are unable to put the thing over." Helen gave him a sympathetic smile.

"Yes; one feels that." "It depends upon one's temperament," Miss Jardine objected.