You see what I am." As on this, however, he protested, with a good-humoured headshake, a resignation of any such claim, she had a moment of explanation.

"If you'll only come on further as you HAVE come you'll at any rate make out.

My own fate has been too many for me, and I've succumbed to it.
I'm a general guide--to 'Europe,' don't you know?
I wait for people--I put them through.

I pick them up--I set them down.

I'm a sort of superior 'courier-maid.' I'm a companion at large.