You know so much of the world." "That is it," he said, his voice dropping to a soft minor, "I know too much of the world." It was an important thing to her to hear one so well-positioned and powerful speaking in this manner.

She could not help feeling the strangeness of her situation.

How was it that, in so little a while, the narrow life of the country had fallen from her as a garment, and the city, with all its mystery, taken its place?
Here was this greatest mystery, the man of money and affairs sitting beside her, appealing to her.

Behold, he had ease and comfort, his strength was great, his position high, his clothing rich, and yet he was appealing to her.

She could formulate no thought which would be just and right.