I think some matters of importance may transpire at the interview .-- J.E.T." * * * * * "I hope you don't mind," I said apologetically, when I had read the note to Ruth.
"Of course I don't," she replied.

"I am rather pleased.

We have so many associations with the dear old Museum, haven't we ?" She looked at me for a moment with a strange and touching wistfulness and then turned to descend the stone stairs.
At the Temple gate, I hailed a hansom and we were soon speeding westward and north to the soft tinkle of the horse's bell.
"What are these experiments that Doctor Thorndyke refers to ?" she asked presently.
"I can only answer you rather vaguely," I replied.

"Their object, I believe, is to ascertain whether the penetrability of organic substances by the X-rays becomes altered by age; whether, for instance, an ancient block of wood is more or less transparent to the rays than a new block of the same size." "And of what use would the knowledge be, if it were obtained ?" "I can't say.

Experiments are made to obtain knowledge without regard to its utility.